DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars during its lifespan. If it’s already found 300 examples of one of the universe’s ...

Learning about their diversity could help astronomers compare these supernovas with one another, refining our understanding of dark energy. "The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow ...

The sheer amount of white dwarf explosions resulting from incidents like star collisions or star “cannibalism” may help to enlighten astrophysicists on dark energy and its potential role in the ...

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ever of dwarf galaxies that host an actively feeding black hole ...

scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, more than tripling the existing census of both. These large ...