Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to observe an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as VCC 615. Results of ...

An international team of astronomers has analyzed multi-color photometric and spectroscopic observations of the star Gaia20bdk. As a result, they found that Gaia20bdk is a FUor-type young stellar ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a ...

The jet emerging from M87’s supermassive black hole is tens of millions of times larger than its event horizon. In 2019, the ...

An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, have ...

Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an ...

This limit on luminosity also defines the maximum rate ... But in trying to explain the existence of supermassive black holes, astronomy has a problem. We see supermassive black holes not only ...

The extraordinary brightness of this galaxy hinted at the presence of a powerful black hole, as its luminosity is largely ...

This unusual discovery sheds light on the mysterious life cycles of black holes, challenging our understanding of their ...

The rate at which the universe is expanding is expressed as a value called the Hubble Constant, generally abbreviated as “H 0 ...

Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR ... have a mere fraction of the Sun's mass and luminosity. They constitute 70 per cent of the ...

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