Very massive stars that collapse to create black holes may vomit out much more material during their short lives than we previously thought. The team's modeling revealed how stellar binaries can lead ...

Hubble snapped this incredibly detailed view of the "Pillars of Creation" to help mark its 25th anniversary. NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team What do the "Pillars of Creation" look like ...

A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at the heart of the galaxy M87—astronomer Heber Curtis had already discovered ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its center sits a dense, rapidly spinning neutron star that turns every 33.8 ...

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Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These measurements reveal details about the chaotic, superheated material swirling ...

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Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle jet. The Frankfurt team’s FPIC code shows that magnetic reconnection, where ...

Very massive stars that collapse to create black holes may vomit out much more material during their short lives than we previously thought. To fit with astronomical observations of these stars, which ...

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