Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The geese winter at the wetland, leaving their frozen homes on the Tibetan plateau and in Central Asia each year, tens of ...

Despite their darkness, they emit bright signals when gas spirals around them. Detecting hidden black holes is tough. Thick gas and dust obscure light, making these cosmic giants invisible to many ...

Look at the image above. Looks like you’re falling into it, doesn’t it? Like the darkness is approaching, threatening to overtake you if you stare too long. Why is that? A new study has an explanation ...

Women are respected, and when they are so respected they are left with a little squared hole on their ... Instead, she went with “light will always triumph over darkness.” ...

We recently devoted an episode to exploring LED light pollution in one of Germany ... Tibet’s Ngari Prefecture – and make photos of complete darkness. But it ended up being too hard to ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

Supermassive black holes are often ... In each image, a patch of purple with neon pink veins floats in the blackness of space, surrounded by flecks of light. Dark purple or blue areas represent ...