Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A ...
Yes, "the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But relativity itself would have to be wrong for black holes to not possess them.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Astronomers aimed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at a distant galaxy cluster called Abell S1063 with one goal in mind. They wanted to hunt for some of the very first stars that ever formed. What the telescope delivered instead turned out far more ...
Astronomers may have finally pinned down why some galaxies stop making stars. At a specific mass, they appear to build a self-supporting halo of hot gas that cuts off the cool fuel needed for new star formation, which results in the galaxy slowly ...
It's the Universe's ultimate chicken-and-egg question: what came first, the galaxy or the black hole? One Little Red Dot proves the answer.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
In 2016, humanity announced our first successful gravitational wave detection. 10 years and 389 events later, here's how far we've come.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »