NSF & the Simons Foundation will jointly fund two new National AI Research Institutes for astronomy. Each institute will ...

"If we shrink the jets to the size of the Earth and the black hole accordingly, the black hole would have the size of 0.2 ...

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...

The study suggests that black holes are actually frozen stars, theoretical remnants of stars that have cooled down and no ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) ...

In a rare and extraordinary discovery, researchers have identified a unique configuration of galaxies that form the most ...

A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in ...

Tiny black hole "bullets" left over from the Big Bang could be passing through Mars at speeds in excess of 7,000 times the ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas.

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

In a first, scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science ...