Launched on Sept. 6, 2023, XRISM studies X-ray signals emitted throughout the universe. On Feb. 25, 2024, it aimed at a ...

October nights are famed for their ghastly Halloween frights, yet the skies in fact bring rather friendly and benign ...

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Astronomy has a way of surprising you. When you believe the universe has yielded its biggest secrets, distant giants and ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought.

Scientists from University of Southampton say they may have been overestimating size of the celestial giants after a new discovery.

A groundbreaking astronomical finding has resolved a long-standing mystery about the early cosmos, according to space specialist Andy Lound. Scientists have determined that black holes from the ...

Recorded to be growing at one of the fastest rates known, this massive black hole was growing at 2.4 times the Eddington limit, surpassing it.

They discovered that the Chandra spectrum closely matched what they expected from models of black holes expanding faster than ...

By studying the X-ray spectrum collected by Chandra, scientists were able to estimate the black hole’s growth rate, which ...

Astronomers have taken a rare look into the distant past of the universe and uncovered evidence that galaxies and their ...

An image of a distant galaxy warped by a cosmic magnifying glass reveals a massive blob of dark matter hiding in plain sight.