A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...
SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...
Astronomers have captured the first radio image of two supermassive black holes orbiting each other within the quasar OJ287, ...
Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...
When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star systems slowly merge together, their gravitational pull drawing them closer.
CANBERRA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A world-first discovery of binary stars, pairs of stars orbiting a common center of gravity, could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy ...
In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...
A Caltech astrophysicist and an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts ...
Scientists have captured the first direct image of two black holes orbiting each other inside quasar OJ287, confirming a theory debated for over four decades. The discovery, made using data from the ...