Astronomers detect Milky Way’s second-largest known black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the…
By Will Dunham 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…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Supernovas are not always so super. These explosions that mark the death of a star often are spectacularly energetic. But once in a while…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON – Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from a distant dwarf galaxy that were detected using a massive telescope in China are moving scientists closer to…
Ailan Evans on February 7, 2022 Elon Musk’s space exploration and aeronautics company SpaceX has launched so many satellites it’s interfering with astronomers’ ability to study the cosmos, according to…