Advanced Civilizations Could use Their Stars to Communicate (and as Telescopes)

Next Generation Telescopes Could Detect the Direct Collapse of Enormous Black Holes Near the Beginning of Time

Puzzling Periodicity of a Fast Radio Burst Probed by Two of the Biggest Radio Telescopes in the World

Telescopes looking beyond the Milky Way see countless other spiral galaxies in exquisite detail. Yet the precise patterns of our own galaxy’s spiral arms have long eluded astronomers. But recently, astronomers have started to redraw our corner of the Milky Way.