At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...

When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

NASA's new project employs a technique known as sonification. It transmutes space data into sound, allowing us to conceptualise what black holes may "sound" like.

NASA finds supermassive black hole called ‘Space Jaws:’ Why it deserves sci-fi horror name A sneaky black hole was the source of a tidal disruption event that was so large and so bright that ...

Through the eye of the Hubble Space Telescope, the universe is an endless array of color, light, swirling stars, and psychedelic nebulae. Since its launch in 1990, the telescope has peered into the ...

From the spectrograph’s data, which show that the gas is moving as fast as 880,000 miles per hour, astronomers determined that the black hole contains at least 300 million times the mass of our sun.

A Hubble image of NGC 6302, aka the "Butterfly Nebula," from June 2020. The star or stars at its center are responsible for the nebula's appearance. In their death throes, they have cast off ...

In 2021, scientists at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) found a stellar-mass black hole in NGC 1850. At about 11 times the Sun's mass, it was found by its effect on a ...