Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...
The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the galaxy’s disc, an echo of something mysterious in our galaxy’s ancient past.
Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.
On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...
An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why humanity has never made contact with an extraterrestrial ...
In an inversion of the well known scenario of a black hole devouring a star, the researchers propose that a star actually ...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and powerful 'odd radio circle' (ORC) ever detected. These enormous, mysterious ...
UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.
The most energetic events in the universe are gamma ray bursts, beams of radiation so intense they could wipe out all life on ...