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May 1, 2019

Black hole spits out high-energy jets at near light-speed

A stunning new image reveals two jets of high-energy material being spewed at nearly light-speed from the first-ever photographed black hole .

April 30, 2019

The most distant object ever explored is lumpy. And astronomers don't know why.

Ultima Thule is lumpy, and scientists aren't sure why.

April 26, 2019

Physicists closer to solving mystery of weird glowing ring around Milky Way's Black Hole

DENVER — Astronomers watched a high-speed gas cloud slam into the matter getting sucked toward Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and then zip away into space.

April 26, 2019

High-altitude auroras create 'speed bumps' for satellites

A high-altitude version of the northern lights can create a headwind for some orbiting satellites, a new study reports.

April 24, 2019

The world's largest atom smasher could be tweaked to hunt 'dark world' particles

Scientists may have a new way to peer into physics' "dark world."

April 22, 2019

Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week: How to watch the starry spectacle

Stargazers are going to appreciate these April showers.

April 22, 2019

The Hubble just took a gorgeous new image of the Southern Crab Nebula's wonky gas bubbles

Twenty years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a giant crab in the sky.

April 22, 2019

NASA spots mysterious galactic 'jellyfish' in space

The government space agency said it had found a "jellyfish"-like galaxy, known as ESO 137-001, with a tail made up of long gas stretching 260,000 light-years across space.

April 19, 2019

There's a tiny, bright magnetar photobombing our galaxy's supermassive black hole

There's a bright magnetar photobombing the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, frustrating astronomers' efforts to study the black hole — called Sagittarius A* — using X-ray telescopes.

April 17, 2019

We could soon watch a black hole in action, gobbling up matter in real time

DENVER — Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever image of a black hole's shadow cast against the hot gas of its accretion disk.