A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process.

The new TDE, called AT2024tvd, allowed astronomers to pinpoint a wandering supermassive black hole using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, with similar supporting observations from NASA's Chandra X ...

IXPE saw record 47.5% optical polarization in blazar BL Lacertae in 2023 X-ray polarization stayed low, confirmed Compton scattering by electrons Findings rule out proton models and deepen insight ...

Credit: NASA/Pablo Garcia Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets of supermassive black holes like the blazar BL ...

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The two black holes coexist in the same galaxy but are not gravitationally bound as a pair, making this discovery even more intriguing. Astronomers used a suite of observatories-including NASA’s ...

Rachel Reeves’s record tax increases have derailed the economy and threaten to blow a £57bn hole in the public finances, analysts have warned. The Chancellor’s plans have hammered business ...

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has said the Government is now likely to fail its fiscal rules (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire) A leading economic think-tank has warned that ...