To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture the size of the Earth. One participating EHT telescope, highlighted here, is ...

Scientists Teleported Light for the First Time in History, Say It Could Done Across Galaxies Since the dawn of astronomy, light has been our time machine. What we see in the night sky is not just ...

The rapid response of the citizen scientists allowed astronomers to classify the object as a cataclysmic variable star. These are binary systems in which one object, a dense stellar corpse known ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.