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…
There's a little galaxy in the Milky Way's cosmic neighborhood called Leo 1. It's a dwarf spheroidal that lies less…
Ever since astronomers first detected ultra high energy neutrinos coming from random directions in space, they have not been able…