After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on…
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, named in honor of noted physicist Enrico Fermi, has been in operation for almost a…
When a flash of light appears somewhere in the sky, astronomers notice. When it appears in a region of the…
It's been a banner time for black hole research! In recent months, astrophysicists have announced the discovery of the most…
The planets in our Solar System all rotate on axes that roughly match the Sun's rotational axis. This agreement between…
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center…
We puny humans think we can accelerate particles? Look how proud we are of the Large Hadron Collider. But any…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted a distant black hole shooting out jets of material, at close to the speed…
A series of studies has shown that the seeds of supermassive black holes and relativistic jets existed much sooner than…
NASA recently selected four new missions for development that will study gravitational waves, supernovae, relativistic jets, and exoplanet habitability.