Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

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The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

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After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange ...

The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington’s entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph.

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Astronomers discover a network of cosmic tunnels linking our solar system to distant galaxies, revealing a dynamic and ...

While neutron stars typically rotate in milliseconds or seconds, ASKAP J1839-075 takes an astonishing 6.45 hours to complete ...

In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...