Highlights
The universe blazes with energy, not just among stars, nebulae, and teeming galactic nurseries, but also erupting as high-speed jets of ionized matter from some of the most powerful destructive sources ever known –…
Magnetic fields are difficult to detect. For decades, astronomers have studied the factors that shape the interiors of galaxies—gravity, kinetic energy, stellar radiation, gas pressure—but magnetic fields remain largely…
The Universe is a violent place, where even a star’s life can be cut short. That happens when it finds itself in a “bad” neighborhood, and specifically the neighborhood of a…
An international team of scientists have observed both the shadow of a black hole at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy and…