A water reserve the size of 140 trillion oceans lurks in a distant supermassive black hole, the Universe’s largest deposit of water ever found – 4,000 times the amount found in the Milky Way. Two teams of astronomers discovered this … Read More
A group of scientists obtained a stunning image of a distant galaxy, reminding us all how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.This ‘monster galaxy’ is approximately 12 billion light-years from Earth and generates new stars 1,000 times … Read More
A new telescope designed to peer into the twisted X-ray Universe has just returned its first imaging data. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA-Italy Space Agency collaboration, focused its attention on one of the Milky Way’s most famous … Read More
For the first time, scientists observed a star being swallowed up by a black hole, and then watched as some of the star’s matter was ejected back out as a flare of plasma moving at nearly the speed of light … Read More
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is currently pointing at the skies from its home in the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory, is tasked with charting the expansion of space, investigating dark energy, and … Read More
The image above may look like a fairly normal picture of the night sky, but what you’re looking at is a lot more special than just glittering stars. Each of those white dots is an active supermassive black hole. And … Read More