The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...
Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...
In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...
The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.
Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...
By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
The latest Northern Lights forecast means the aurora borealis may be seen in the continental U.S. tonight after space weather ...
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...