Jan. 1, 2025 — Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team's novel ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

M87, a prominent galaxy in the Virgo cluster, gained fame after the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) revealed the first image of ...

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A powerful gamma-ray flare from the M87* black hole challenges current understanding of particle acceleration near black holes.

NASA has unveiled stunning images of black holes located at the centers of distant galaxies, providing a deeper glimpse into ...

The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

HE0435-1223, a lensed quasar, is surrounded by four images created by a foreground galaxy, making it one of the five best lensed quasars discovered. Hubble's image of NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy 150 ...

A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to ...

Scientists have observed a rare and powerful gamma-ray flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy ...