If you don't want to drag a telescope to your dark sky spot for stargazing, then the Celestron Skymaster 25x100 binoculars ...

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Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A rare confluence of factors makes the Atacama an ideal home for some of the world’s biggest astronomical projects – dry ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Astronomers have identified a remarkable population of distant quasars whose radio jets balloon to scales that make our own galaxy look compact, stretching to widths roughly 50 times larger than the ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...