Comet 3I/ATLAS recently emerged from behind the glare of the sun to become visible to ground-based telescopes.

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

This year, on 10 November, it is World Science Day for Peace and Development. SALT has had considerable social benefits for ...

The so-called “Golden Age” of theoretical black hole physics refers to the period between 1963—when Roy Kerr discovered the solution describing a rotating black hole—and 1973, when Stephen Hawking ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star's surrounding disk, revealing ...

Black holes could soon help us understand dark matter. These extreme objects, long considered light traps, are now becoming observational tools. Through finer analysis of their images, scientists hope ...