Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.
Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...
Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...
The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...
A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...
Not too long ago, if you wanted to witness the wonders of the universe, you'd need to lug around a bulky telescope and ...
Astronomers evaluate how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory can detect and localize the next Milky Way core-collapse supernova using neutrino alerts and optical surveys.
We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...