Astrophysicist Tomoaki Matsumoto and collaborators have used three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic supercomputer simulations to show that magnetic fields can drive young binary star systems to tighten ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include ...

"Imagine that you shoot a cloud with a gun; the energy of the bullet can be as large as you wish, and the cloud won't care. Yet we see less clouds of gas where there are black holes." When you ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Crowe "A big question ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow of gas near a massive star in the making that allows its rapid growth. By ...

Galaxies in the universe today have come a long way from the first structures that emerged after the Big Bang. Galaxies like our own Milky Way are composed of hundreds of billions of stars these days, ...