(CNN) — Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas ...

Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas bubbles ...

From where we’re sitting, the universe is a big, smooth expanse full of giant stars and planets. When we use the most powerful measurement tools we have, to zoom in as close as we possibly can in ...

The center of the Milky Way is a busy place. The galaxy's core is bustling with a supermassive black hole, the birth of thousands of stars, and their explosive deaths. And now, a team of astronomers ...

Newly discovered lobes stretch tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk. Where did they come from? On a clear night, away from city lights, you might see a beautiful ...

Equipped with new data, astronomers hoped to make better sense of the Fermi Bubbles, a giant pair of high-energy blobs that appear to originate from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But ...

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There are few better sentences than one that includes the words “giant”, “bubbles”, “exploding” and “slow motion”. Well, there’s one thing better: a video that fits that sentence. Put together by Joey ...

A supermassive black hole devouring the heart of the Milky Way may have created multiple giant radiation bubbles, according to a new study. The Fermi Bubbles are two huge space structures that emerge ...

A study inspired by street performers making gigantic soap bubbles led to a discovery in fluid mechanics: Mixing different molecular sizes of polymers within a solution increases the ability of a thin ...