A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by…
There's a lot going on at the center of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A-Star resides there,…
For the first time ever, an international team of astronomers - using the ALMA array - have taken a clear…
The discovery of a millisecond pulsar orbiting a low-mass white dwarf star has astronomers puzzled, mainly because its orbit defies…
We talk about stellar mass and supermassive black holes. What are the limits? How massive can these things get? Without…
While he was working on the film Interstellar, executive producer Kip Thorne was tasked with creating the black hole that…
[/caption] In mid-2009 a binary star system cataloged as H H1743–322 shot off something very unusual. Poised about 28,000 light…
[/caption] Thanks to the magic of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of international astronomers have made an incredible…