Here’s how it works. Astronomers have found what they are calling the perfect cosmic storm, a galaxy cluster pile-up so powerful its energy output is second only to the Big Bang. The cluster ...

Astronomers have spotted in an otherwise not-very-interesting galaxy a raging storm erupting from the black hole at its core. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

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Sitting inside a galaxy known as the “Teacup,” nicknamed after its distinct silhouette, lies a storm that’s causing quite the stir. Powered by a supermassive black hole, astronomers thought ...

In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet.” In other words, the black hole is creating one giant storm in the middle ...

PARIS — The in-orbit failure of the Orbital Sciences-built Intelsat Galaxy 15 telecommunications satellite April 5 was likely caused by unusually violent solar activity that week that damaged ...

But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster — one of the largest structures of the Universe — is rather like looking at the eye of the storm. Clusters of galaxies are large groups ...