Before Edwin Hubble, there was Henrietta Leavitt, whose work made other astronomers’ discoveries possible. Her way of looking ...

While what dark energy is precisely remains unknown, as a cosmological constant astronomers could roughly agree on its ...

The group of astronomers are confounded and say the discovery means something is missing from our understanding of black ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal that stars close to the 3,000-light-year-long jet erupt more often than stars ...

Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the ...

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from ...

Nova Explosions in Double Star Systems Doubled Near Black Hole Jet The supermassive black hole in the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 shoots out a blazing bright jet of plasma racing across ...

A curious mechanism tied to supermassive black hole jets are causing more nova eruptions in the voids' vicinities.

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...