Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful ...

A new analysis of BL Lacertae by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer sheds light on the emission mechanisms of active ...

Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

Light from the spiral galaxy UGC 11397 in Lyra took 250 million years to reach Hubble, capturing a glimpse of the distant ...