Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...

In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ... Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a ...

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

"Achieving the first inter-vendor, inter-layer laser link demonstrates the tangible value of open standards and collaborative efforts in rapidly achieving an integrated space architecture.