Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed that infrared glow, revealing fine details resembling the knots and whorls of wood grain. These observations are allowing astronomers to map the true 3D ...
"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole." ...
A supermassive black hole 100 million light-years away is behaving like nothing scientists have ever seen, emitting X-ray flashes at a pace that keeps accelerating. Could a spinning white dwarf be ...