WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two large stars residing inside a spectacular cloud of gas and dust nicknamed the "Dragon's Egg" nebula have presented a puzzle to astronomers. One of them has a magnetic field, ...
"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...
Astronomers have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using the wobbly aftermath from its stellar feasting. The results offer a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their ...
A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured ...
(CN) — In a study published in Nature on Wednesday, dozens of scientists from around the world propose a ghostly explanation for mysterious blue-tinted light bursts in deep space. The ...
Astronomers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using the wobbly aftermath from its stellar feasting. The method takes advantage of a black hole tidal ...