9+ hour, 27+ min ago   (419+ words) "We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow." Turns out the expression "you can't have it all" also applies to black holes. Astronomers have discovered that although feeding black holes can produce…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (375+ words) "This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets." Astronomers have used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to observe…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (286+ words) "Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this." This surprising discovery made possible by the joint Japanese-European-American XRISM spacecraft (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) could change our understanding of how supermassive black…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (202+ words) The Westerlund 2 star cluster is home to some of the Milky Way's brightest stars. Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in a stellar nursery called Gum 29 found…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (118+ words) Hunt for key terms that define one of the universe's most mind-bending phenomena'from event horizons to singularities. Black holes are among the most fascinating and enigmatic objects in the universe. Born from collapsed stars and governed by the laws of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (202+ words) 3I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this interstellar intruder continues to delight and surprise astronomers. It may be on its way away from Earth and heading out of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (385+ words) "This is a real gift for physicists as we confirm predictions made more than a century ago." Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and feasting on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (538+ words) "If this turns out to be real, then it's enormous." The LIGO-Virgo collaboration has been routinely detecting gravitational waves launched through the fabric of space by mergers between black holes and collisions between extreme stellar remnants called neutron stars, since…...

2+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (302+ words) Mid-latitude valleys and crater floors on the Red Planet reveal swirling deposits from ancient glacial flows. Mars may have had its own version of an Ice Age that reshaped parts of the Red Planet and carved deep "scratches" in its…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (231+ words) Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite is the first space telescope funded by the Australian Space Agency to carry a scientific instrument built by another nation's space agency. Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite has snapped its first "selfie" from space, marking a successful start to…...