These shock waves are born in plasma — a gas of ... disks of matter surrounding black holes, and other similar energetic objects. When a sufficiently massive star explodes into a supernova ...

Blazars are active galaxies that emit narrow jets of ionised matter from their centres, aimed towards Earth. Depending on ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously Jan. 13, 2025 ...

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic giants.

inspired by the fifth-century saint Moses the Black, follows a modern-day gangster in Chicago. Epps plays Malik, a gang leader, while Khalifa stars as 2wo-3ree, a volatile member of Malik’s crew ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...