New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...

Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

The ASTERIA cubesat prior to its 2017 launch. While the spacecraft stopped communicating with controllers in December 2019, it had already proven that cubesats can demonstrate the necessary pointing ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have been unraveling the secrets of the far-flung universe for more than a century, but starting in 2018-19, undergraduates will be able to formally declare a ...

Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is one of four concepts for a flagship-class mission currently being studied for potential inclusion in the 2020 astrophysics decadal survey. Credit: NASA ...

Stars, Scopes and Spacetime’ on campus, as an outreach initiative for school students. A combination of lectures, ...