Dr. Massey’s tenure guided the Giant Magellan Telescope through key design and construction milestones, helped secure nearly ...

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting hotspots in the environment, such as bushfires or military ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

This feature has existed since 1990. After the Hubble Telescope was launched, NASA began the APOD project, which shares a new ...

A team of Cardiff University alumni has competed against the world's best in the grand finale of a global entrepreneurial ...