UC Santa Cruz astronomer, students helping design infrared observations for consideration

RINGS will also enable further investigations of one of the most mysterious substances in the

The research, which used a new machine-learning tool to analyze

Brown dwarfs are very hard to detect because of their low luminosity, especially when adjacent to stars a thousand times…

New findings suggest that our galaxy’s last major collision was billions of years later than previously thought

By comparing their observations of the wrinkles with cosmological simulations, the team was able to

The study involved analysing and cataloguing 1.4 million stars in the cluster, which were then compared against theoreti…

A high-mass stellar black hole has been discovered in preliminary data from the Gaia satellite by an international team led by UNIGE astronomers.

The Gaia mission has been set up to measure the distance to more than two billion stars by

Researchers used more than eight years of observations of a quasar called

In an article in this week’s issue of Nature, an international research team led by astronomers at Ohio State University…

The black hole is located approximately 26,000 light years, or 7.9 Kiloparsecs, from Earth in a globular cluster called,…

A study of the internal sound waves created by starquakes, which make stars ring like a bell, has provided unprecedented insights into conditions in the turbulent gas clouds where stars were born 8 billion years ago.

A study of the internal sound waves created by starquakes, which make stars ring like a bell, has provided unprecedented…

Rapidly varying temperatures have been measured on the ultrafast streams of gas emanating from around a black hole.

To measure the temperatures of these winds, the team studied X-rays coming from the edge of the black hole. As they trav…

An international team of astronomers today announced new evidence for the existence of a middleweight black hole in spac…

Black hole superradiance is the scattering of waves from a rotating black hole. If light or gravitational waves hit a ro…

A new solar system is formed in a large cloud of gas and dust that contracts and condenses due to the force of gravity a…

Astronomers have confirmed that electromagnetism in a distant galaxy has the same strength as here on Earth with the hig…

Scientists behind a theory that the speed of light is variable - and not constant as Einstein suggested - have made a pr…

A UC Riverside-led team of astronomers uses observations of a gravitationally lensed galaxy to measure the properties of the early universe

It is difficult to understand the properties of the early universe in large part because this was more than 12 billion y…

In the study, astronomers have used a sample of emission-line selected galaxies from the High-z Emission-Line Survey to…

Astronomers confirm remarkable size of the largest known depleted galaxy core, but evidence suggests it did not form in…

A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and out…