For decades, astrophysicists have wrestled with a basic but brutal question: how did black holes in the early Universe grow ...

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V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Researchers from the South Pole Telescope project team looked deep into the center of the Milky Way, discovering powerful, ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy. When you purchase through links on our ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

If you enter Drexel University’s Main Building, take the stairs in the Great Court to the third floor, walk towards Curtis Hall (go past the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery on your right), follow a long ...