An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

Black hole week reaches its conclusion today (May 10), and there's no better way to mark the occasion than with some "eggs-traordinary" black hole science. This research is more than a mere curiosity ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

An international consortium of astronomers, including students at the University of Texas at Austin, have discovered a planetary system consisting of at least two massive Jupiter-like planets orbiting ...

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An international team of researchers led by PD Dr Florian Peißker has found the first binary star in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (Sagittarius A star) at the centre of ...

A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such ...

SEATTLE — Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars is the stuff of science fiction. But Tatooine-like planets in orbit around pairs of stars might be our best bet in the search for habitable planets ...

The eccentricity in the orbits of these black holes, detected using gravitational waves, could tell the story of their creation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...