Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

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The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than expected. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site ...

First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act ... and elsewhere observed that the black hole's corona—a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared ...

First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act ... and elsewhere observed that the black hole's corona -- a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma -- suddenly disappeared ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Carbon dioxide (CO₂) has been predominantly portrayed as the chief culprit driving global warming. For decades, […] ...

The record-breaking weather is raging on WASP-127b, a "puffy" gas giant ... 127b's clouds by analyzing the light that passed through the puffy planet's atmosphere. This showed that water vapor and ...