The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

In April 2019, a group of astronomers from around the globe stunned the world when they revealed the first image of a black ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...

NASA’s Chandra spots unusual 'knots' in a nearby black hole jet. X-ray data shows bright knots in Centaurus A black hole’s ...

Such immense, compact objects are able to seriously dent space time. Black holes such as the one in M87 are ringed by disks ...

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Astronomers revisited decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, discovering bright, clumped “knots” in an ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...