Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...
Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...
Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly detailed images of the southern sky, stitching together a time-lapse panorama of ...
On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...
Astronomers have revisited data from a dramatic collision of neutron stars to help resolve the infamous ‘Hubble tension’.
Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named ...
A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen "bow-and-arrow" structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are ...
It eases my embarrassment somewhat to know that many astronomers have made similar mistakes. My favorite one involves Kat ...
Scientists still don’t know where ghostly particles called neutrinos originate. A distant galaxy could be a potential source.