Scientists have long struggled to understand what causes some galaxies to turn into graveyards where barely any stars are born. A new study offers clues.
Avaneesh Pandey
May 26, 2016
Using data gathered by the ALMA telescope in Chile, scientists have been able to determine a black hole’s mass with an unprecedented level of precision.
Avaneesh Pandey
May 06, 2016
NASA announced Monday that its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope had detected a brief flash of high-energy X-rays, possibly coming from a gravitational wave source.
Avaneesh Pandey
Apr 19, 2016
A distant "Einstein Ring" — a product of gravitational lensing — may provide scientists some much-needed clues to the nature of dark matter.
Avaneesh Pandey
Apr 15, 2016
These massive objects are usually found in much larger galaxies than the elliptical galaxy NGC 1600.
Charles Poladian
Apr 06, 2016
ASTRO-H successfully lifted off from the Tahegashima Space Center early Wednesday.
Charles Poladian
Feb 17, 2016
If confirmed, the discovery would provide scientists an opportunity to test the theory that supermassive black holes evolve from these lower-mass seeds.
Avaneesh Pandey
Jan 16, 2016
The findings, published in the Astrophysical Journal, could yield new insights into the development of black holes and their behavior.
Jackie Salo
Jan 11, 2016
The team behind the experiment have yet to comment on the rumors.
Charles Poladian
Jan 11, 2016
Stephen Hawking and his colleagues offer a new answer to the question of what happens to information sucked in by black holes.
Avaneesh Pandey
Jan 11, 2016
These are likely black holes or neutron stars feeding off their dead companions.
Charles Poladian
Jan 06, 2016
One of the black holes in the galaxy SDSS J1126+2944 is significantly smaller than the other and apparently “naked,” or starved of stars.
Avaneesh Pandey
Jan 06, 2016
The behavior of a supermassive black hole could affect the evolution and formation of a galaxy.
Charles Poladian
Jan 05, 2016
For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the rare event, which occurs when a star falls into a black hole’s gravitational well.
Avaneesh Pandey
Nov 27, 2015
This has nothing to do with actual hair.
Charles Poladian
Nov 23, 2015
Approximately 100,000 years from now -- a blink of an eye in the cosmic scale -- two supermassive black holes in the Virgo constellation will collide and merge.
Avaneesh Pandey
Sep 18, 2015
During a lecture Tuesday, the famed British cosmologist put forward a new idea to resolve a long-standing conundrum -- the black hole "information paradox."
Avaneesh Pandey
Aug 26, 2015
The black hole, located at the heart of the dwarf galaxy RGG 118, could help scientists understand how supermassive black holes form.
Avaneesh Pandey
Aug 13, 2015
New observations made using NASA's Hubble telescope have revealed a self-regulating mechanism that controls the rate of star formation in massive galaxies.
Avaneesh Pandey
Aug 07, 2015
The size of a black hole traditionally coincides with its host galaxy.
Jeff Stone
Jul 10, 2015
The supermassive black holes discovered by the team were much brighter and more active than previously thought.
Aditya Tejas
Jul 06, 2015
Astronomers used a collection of 66 telescopes located on a Chilean plateau to look outside the Milky Way.
Jeff Stone
Jun 24, 2015
