Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...
Born in India and raised in UAE, the young astrophysicist turned a childhood fascination with the night sky into research on ...
In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...
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'Like trying to see fog in the dark': How strange pulses of energy are helping scientists build the ultimate map of the universe
Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...
Astronomers have been watching this galaxy pair, NGC 4532 and DDO 137, for years and discovered a "gas bridge" over 185,000 light years long.
Well, you get something like galaxy NGC 2775. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to ...
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Astronomers Just Found the Earliest Known Black Hole, and It’s a Monster That Shouldn’t Exist
The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...
Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...
What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...
Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...
Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...
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