In a first, scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology ...

Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...

Our own galaxy exists within a neighborhood of closely gathered ... The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole at its core: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"). The Milky Way above the Atacama ...

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...

The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...

The discovery of something this immense surprisingly early in the lifetime of the universe overturns what we thought we knew ...

"This one has managed to reach a size that's so big," said Eileen Meyer, who studies black holes at University of Maryland, ...

Astronomers on Maunakea on Hawai‘i Island have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million ...

Black holes hold some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, with giant empty spots in space sucking in whatever enters their ...