PASADENA, CA – The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered using the world's largest mirrors, has secured a $205 million investment from its international co...

Cambridge, Mass. – A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

Stars with the mass of the sun or larger are typically accompanied by one or more orbiting companion stars. The system forms when gravity contracts the gas and dust of an interstellar clo...

 

The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy's core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released a drama...

Cambridge, MA – An international research team from China, the U.S., and Germany, including Qizhou Zhang at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has used the ALMA Obse...

The structure of the universe is often described as being a cosmic web of filaments, nodes, and voids, with the nodes being clusters of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound objects...

Cambridge, Mass. – A young pulsar is blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster, witnessed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, is o...

Cambridge, Mass. – Arnab Sarkar, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), has revealed data and images that — for the first time — confirm th...

Cambridge, MA – Astronomers studying the structure of the Milky Way galaxy have released the highest-resolution 3D view of the Orion star-forming region. The image and interactive figure ...