A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures.

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest objects ever detected in space. The arc was discovered near the galaxy cluster ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. Credit: Durham University ...

As we crunch over fallen leaves, sunlight trickles through foliage, creating a golden tunnel of light that makes our journey ...

This one, however, is different. The wandering black hole weighs one million times the mass of the Sun. Meanwhile, the centre of the host galaxy holds a much bigger black hole — 100 million ...

In each case, the visible star races around an invisible object with more than three times the sun’s mass, indicating a black hole rather than a neutron star. While solitary black holes should ...

Credit: EHT collaboration In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope ... Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, José L.

Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest black hole ever seen and forged precious metals like gold, silver, and uranium.