Stellar-mass Black Holes
Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all…
The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within…
How do you find an invisible object in the vast darkness of space that traps light? The answer, as astronomers…
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT — the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now…
The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction…
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest, most violent explosions in the universe, but they can be surprisingly tricky to detect. Our…
You may have seen a portrayal of planets around supermassive black holes in the movies. But what would the conditions…
