We all know that black holes gobble up anything and everything that passes through their event horizons. However, the exact ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

Our next meeting, on Thursday, July 3, will be at the regular time of 6 p.m. for the social hour and at our regular location — the Community United Methodist Church at 434 Lewis St. Please ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...