Astronomers with NASA's IXPE have uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos.
It was a bump in the night. A big one. Astronomers revealed on Monday that two massive black holes collided producing another one that is 225 times the mass of our sun.
Stars are like grains of sand, each holding a piece of the universe's history. The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes us to NGC 1786, a dense star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller galaxy orbiting our Milky Way ...