Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...
Stretching tens of thousands of light-years above and below the center of the Milky Way are two enormous structures known as the Fermi Bubbles. These vast clouds of extremely hot plasma emit powerful ...
After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.
A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can result from the activity of black holes and their interaction with the ...
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is pleased to announce that David Lassner, President Emeritus of the University of Hawai’i (UH), and his team will be recognized ...
Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing through space at roughly 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to eventually ...
Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.
Astronomers say a distant, sunlike star shows signs of a catastrophic planet-on-planet crash that may mirror the ancient impact that formed Earth's moon.