Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

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 ...

Recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released a new image of the supermassive black hole at the center ...

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 night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern ...

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance between them – the inverse square law. However, as Most ...

Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, ...

The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

A futuristic telescope design could one day let scientists finally look at fine details of the atmosphere of Earth-sized exoplanets — confirming if some are potentially habitable worlds. It would do ...

Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem El Yajouri has officially joined NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore ...

SINGAPORE - Five students from Singapore clinched four gold medals and a bronze at an international Olympiad for astronomy ...