A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

A stunning Valentine's view of a nebula contains hidden depths of starbirth and the violent deaths of massive stars.

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

NASA Chandra X-ray telescope data from galaxy cluster Abell 2146 shows a "shockwave that stretches for some 1.6 million miles ...

Activist author Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, which will close in June. Kendi was hired by BU to open the center in 2020 following George Floyd ...

The founding director of an anti-racist research center at Boston University is moving to another university and the center he founded will be shutting down. "Despite all the headwinds we faced as ...

Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research is set to close in June as Ibram X. Kendi, an antiracist activist and scholar, departs for Howard University in Washington, D.C. The center’s ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

This cooler gas then falls back toward the center of the galactic cluster ... black hole in white as seen by the Chandra telescope and the VLT | Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V.

Brightness Link: The brightness of the hot gas in the center of galaxy clusters is directly related to the brightness of the warm filaments. This confirms the self-feeding process of black holes.