Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
A walk through the historical spaces of Kolkata, ranging from grand buildings to religious places offers an immersive ...