In terms of light, white is a mixture of all wavelengths of light being perceived simultaneously, and true pitch black is the absence of any light—no color, no visual information. When it comes ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

In the next ten years, the global array is expected to increase the amount of sharp, clear data EHT has for imaging by a ...

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The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

A University of Massachusetts astronomy professor is science lead on a $5 million proposal selected by NASA to develop new ...

Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight ...

pair we have ever observed in X-ray and visible-light wavelengths. While not the first dual black holes that scientists have discovered, this AGN pair is separated by far less space than any other ...

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Black hole jets can accelerate radiation and particles close to the speed of light, causing them to glow in wavelengths visible to radio telescopes. Such a glow drew the attention of astronomers ...

Astronomers using radio telescopes have observed one pair of binary black holes in even closer proximity than in MCG-03-34-64, but without confirmation in other wavelengths. AGN binaries like this ...