How big is the biggest black hole? This is what a recent study submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as a ...
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered an inexplicably dense galaxy inside an "Einstein ring" last year. Now, researchers ...
“Researchers around the world are using the quasar map to measure everything from the initial density fluctuations that seeded the cosmic web to the distribution of cosmic voids to the motion of ...
Astronomers have ... showed in polarized light a ring of magnetic fields surrounding the Sagittarius A* black hole. The fields are similar to those observed around the M87* black hole at the ...
The average mass of known black holes of stellar origin in our galaxy is around 10 times the mass ... will be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
That discussion was prompted by SpaceX’s first launch of 60 Starlink satellites a little more than six months earlier, widely visible in the night sky and alarming astronomers, who feared what ...
In total, the gas of 49 galaxies was detected. A team of international astronomers have discovered 49 new gas-rich galaxies using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa from observations that ...
With improved telescopes, astronomers started looking for another proof of Earth’s motion around the Sun, stellar parallax. Earth’s orbit is huge — some 186 million miles (300,000 kilometers ...
Astronomers have gotten better at tracking ... Victor Glover, a nine-year veteran of the astronaut corps who will fly around the moon in 2025, said the search for excellence and diversity were ...
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a rare eclipsing Be/X-ray binary system as part of the Swift Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Survey (S-CUBED). The finding was detailed ...
A team of international astronomers have discovered 49 new galaxies using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, using observations that were less than three hours long. Credit: ICRAR The ...