Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 on missions expected to last only five years. Nearly four decades later, both ...
The Würzburg-led research unit "Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies" has been investigating the powerful plasma beams emitted by supermassive black ...
About two decades ago, in 1998, a supernova observation began to slowly reveal the contours of the enigmatic universe. The ...
On a scale that stretches human intuition, a distant supermassive black hole has hurled matter into space at 134 million miles per hour, turning a region of quiet darkness into a storm of high-energy ...
Images from NASA's Galileo mission reveal a tantalizing starburst-like feature. Scientists call it a "wall demon." ...
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NASA’s Chandra Observatory has produced vivid, energy-segmented X-ray maps of galaxy clusters, revealing shock waves, cooling ...