Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can't see them. But we can observe their immediate surroundings and learn…
Black holes are confounding objects that stretch physics to its limits. The most massive ones lurk in the centers of…
Life and supernovae don't mix. From a distance, supernovae explosions are fascinating. A star more massive than our Sun runs…
A Chandra X-ray Observatory view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of quasar H1821+643. Courtesy NASA/CXC/Univ. of Cambridge/J.…
On July 7, 2020, the X-ray instrument eROSITA captured an astronomical event that – until then – had only been…
Why is there so much antimatter in the Universe? Ordinary matter is far more plentiful than antimatter, but scientists keep…
It’s first light for one of the newest space observatories! The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer team has released their first…
A new mission has launched to study some the most intriguing secrets of the universe. No, not THAT spacecraft (JWST…
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind…
NASA recently released a panoramic mosaic image that beautifully captures the mysterious and extremely energetic environment at the heart of…