Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can't see them. But we can observe their immediate surroundings and learn…
The death of a star is one of the most dramatic natural events in the Universe. Some stars die in…
Something extraordinary happens about every 10,000 to 100,000 years in galaxies like the Milky Way. An unwary star approaches the…
In a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysical Letters, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
When a spiral galaxy presents itself just right, observations reveal more detail. That's the case with NGC 7469, a spiral…
Black holes are confounding objects that stretch physics to its limits. The most massive ones lurk in the centers of…
Who knows what lurks in the hearts of some globular clusters? Astronomers using a collection of gravitational wave observatories found…
Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them,…
When a flash of light appears somewhere in the sky, astronomers notice. When it appears in a region of the…