Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

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A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The idea is that we might be living in a black hole.

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. Credit: Space.com | ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...