‘In the News’ Archives

Where does the Milky Way begin and end? It’s not a simple question because it … “Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way’s Star-Forming Disc”

Astronomers continue to find supermassive black holes at earlier and earlier times in the Universe, … “Is the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Mystery Solved?”

Most large stars come from multi-stellar systems, and the evidence seems to show that many … “Binary Stars Form Lots Of Exoplanets, But Many Of Them Are Ejected As Rogue Planets”

Abell 2744–QSO1 appears just 700 million years after the Big Bang, an era when astronomers … “Massive black hole from the early universe has astronomers looking back to the Big Bang”

Over the past decade, astronomers have detected many stellar-mass black holes that don’t quite make sense. Stellar-mass … “A dead galaxy from the early universe is forcing astronomers to rethink galactic evolution”

Over the past decade, astronomers have detected many stellar-mass black holes that don’t quite make sense. Stellar-mass … “Strangely large black holes are built, not born”

The Hubble Space Telescope has been operational for more than 35 years now, delivering exquisite … “Tracking Changes in the Trifid Nebula With the Hubble”

The gravitational waves from colliding black holes were first detected in 2015, with many more … “Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and the Forbidden Gap”

The Cygnus X-1 black hole has a special place in the history of astronomy. In 1971, astronomers … “Black hole Cygnus X-1’s dancing jets”

Gravity behaves predictably in your daily life. Drop a ball, and it falls. Planets loop … “Scientists reveal the hidden forces shaping how gravity works across the Universe”