Scientists even figured out where it came from, thanks to a new telescope array.
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“Punctum” is a compact, luminous speckle of light harboring a strangely organized magnetic field, astrophysicists say.
Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that...
The proposal is highly theoretical and likely will take at least several decades to realize, but if...
Astronomers have constructed one of the most detailed images yet of Abell 3667, a giant galaxy cluster...
Named 2020 VN40, this tiny body completes one orbit around the Sun for every ten Neptune makes.
Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the...
The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of...
A new study on the structure of ice formed in space overturns a decades-long consensus in astronomy.
Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.