Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has once again provided astronomers with invaluable insights into the mysteries of the universe.

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

ASKAP J0107–2347, located around 1.5 billion light-years away, is also remarkable because it features two sets of radio lobes ...

Scientists have never directly detected dark matter, but some wonder if one high-energy detection in 2023 could be a rare ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the ...

More information: Mingyu Li et al, The Cosmic Owl: Twin Active Collisional Ring Galaxies with Starburst Merging Front at z=1.14, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.10058 ...

The galaxy, known as SSTXFLS J172458.3+591545, has a deeply obscured black hole that is actively growing by consuming interstellar gas, known as an active galactic nucleus.

So, the high-energy particle wasn’t directly a dark matter particle, but rather a muon that decayed from dark matter likely fired from a blazar (a type of active galactic nucleus) right at Earth.