XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years away. This material gradually moved inwards to a distance of around 0.001 ...

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

Check these five spectacular NASA images from space posted on their Instagram handle, which keeps us updated with all the ...

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

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

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Expansion of the universe had already been anticipated by theorists. In the early 1920s, Alexander Friedmann and Georges ...

A star wiggling oddly around in space may be the signpost to one of the most sought-after objects in the galaxy. Some 5,825 ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a new type of OLED (organic light emitting diode) that has the potential to ...

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