Back in 2019, the world was treated to the first ever image of a black hole, which was originally captured…
Astronomers recently caught a supermassive black hole gulp down a star. It flared in exactly the same way as its…
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If you've been following developments in astronomy over the last few years, you may have heard about the so-called "crisis…
Sometimes astronomers come up with awesome names for certain phenomena and then feel like they can’t use them in formal…
In the past we’ve reported about how the Roman Space Telescope is going to potentially be able to detect hundreds…
A new study proposes an exotic boson star to explain the largest gravitational wave merger we've observed.
The Low Frequency Array has mapped a portion of the sky at the lowest radio frequencies ever, revealing more than…
What happens when galaxies collide? Well, if any humans are around in about a billion years, they might find out.…
A new study by an international team shows how the physics of a black hole's event horizon could allow us…