NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...
Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science – have made the first-ever detection of a mid-infrared (mid-IR) flare from the supermassive black hole at the centre of ...
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered a massive new radio galaxy spanning more than 32 times the size of the Milky Way, a researcher ... by supermassive black holes at the centers ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded ... astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of ...
(Left) the relatively quiet black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (Right) The violent and ... black hole in white as seen by the Chandra telescope and the VLT | Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO ...
In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...