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A previously quiet black hole at the center of a distant galaxy has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days. These “hiccups” suggest black hole accretion disks may be more varied than previously thought, possibly containing other black holes, and even entire stars.

A black hole may be punching through the disk of gas and dust surrounding a supermassive black hole, causing its giant neighbor to "hiccup."

Blame it on a smaller orbiting black hole repeatedly punching through the accretion disk.

A black hole may be punching through the disk of gas and dust surrounding a supermassive black hole, causing its giant neighbor to "hiccup."

Here are the statements by the former astronauts: Professor: What really happened out of Apollo 11? Buzz Aldrin: An amazing thing, even though we have always known of this possibility....

Instruments on the exterior of the International Space Station provide data on astrophysical phenomena that are helping scientists better understand our

More than 3,700 investigations conducted to date have generated roughly 500 research articles published in scientific journals.

Experts will discuss new research from NASA missions at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), on topics ranging from planets outside our solar system to fleeting, high-energy explosions in the universe. The meeting will take place Jan. 7-11 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. In press […]

From their crushing gravity to the universe’s strongest magnetic fields, extremes of physics are the norm for neutron star.

A grand anomaly has recently been detected on the lunar surface, and it strongly resembles the entrance to a hollow place, inside the Moon. On December 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission took...