The Event Horizon Telescope, which captured the first image of a black hole, has done it again. The Earth-sized telescope ...

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It's a celestial event that has astronomers both excited and puzzled. Dan Smith has the story of how a gamma-ray burst across ...

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Although our galaxy's supermassive black hole is relatively placid, the center of the Milky Way wherein it resides is not a placid place. Its extreme location is rife with what can best be described ...

After only one year in space, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station has given researchers a new understanding of how lightning is created, and how ...

Astronomers have discovered the first example of a binary system where a star in the process of becoming a white dwarf is orbiting a neutron star that has just finished turning into a rapidly spinning ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

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