Astronomers Detect a Record-Breaking “Cosmic Laser” From 8 Billion Light-Years Away
Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting…
“I Jumped From My Chair” – Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse
This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…
Roman Series: Jupiters Around Other Suns
Episode description: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
Three supermassive black holes have been discovered in the same galaxy
If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…
Astronomers have observed a wandering black hole shredding a star
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a star and a galaxy. Astronomers have recently detected a black…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: A look at the stars of Harry Potter | Astronomy
Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of…
Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas
Black holes are typically seen as enormous, bottomless pits with an insatiable appetite for cosmic matter—if anything, that’s…
A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names…
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects
Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the…
Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…