"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

Gravity makes matter accrete. And when matter accretes, it forms objects. Thus, accretion and formation are very closely related in astronomy: The former can be considered an aspect of the latter.

Researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg (both in ...

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

More information: The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451296 Provided by Max Planck Society ...

These new findings show that these coronas, regions of gas heated to billions of degrees, align with the accretion disks that swirl matter into the black holes. The breakthrough offers new ...

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In this Astronomy 101 video, Associate Editor Liz Kruesi explains how active black holes power some of the most extreme objects in the universe — quasars and other active galactic nuclei.

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc ...

The material that PSR J1023 strips from its companion star forms an accretion disk around the pulsar. This material, full of highly energetic charged particles, is pulled inward by the pulsar’s ...