New evidence suggests the first known black hole is bigger than previously thought, which may force scientists to reconsider their understanding of how giant stars give rise to black holes. Scientists think…
Continue readingAstronomers have published a map of the sky showing 25,000 black holes – the most detailed of its kind ever produced. The map uses low radio frequencies, built from data…
Continue readingSix decades after its discovery, the first black hole ever detected is still causing astronomers to scratch their heads. It turns out that the cosmic behemoth at the heart of…
Continue readingThis artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of 16 super-Earths discovered by the…
Continue readingThis ALMA image shows the young planetforming dust rings surrounding the IRS 63 protostar, which is younger than 500,000 years old. Credit: MPE/D. Segura-Cox Data credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) An international…
Continue readingSolar System distances to scale, showing the newly discovered 2018 AG37, nicknamed “Farfarout,” compared to other known Solar System objects, including the previous record holder 2018 VG18 “Farout,” also found…
Continue readingBy Ibrahim Sawal A picture of the galaxy called ALESS 073.1, just 1.2 billion years after the big bang Cardiff University Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they know to be…
Continue readingFor the first time ever, astronomers may have glimpsed light from a world in a life-friendly orbit around another star. The planet candidate remains unverified and formally unnamed, little more…
Continue readingBy Jonathan O’Callaghan Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which spotted the star systemNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have spotted a bizarre star system in which six stars…
Continue readingA group of galaxies nicknamed the Copeland Septet, in the constellation of Leo. Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have created the largest…
Continue readingAn artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 showing the supermassive black hole and the extremely high velocity wind. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000…
Continue readingThis Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted approximately 1,700 years ago. The stellar corpse, a supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219, met…
Continue readingThe collapse of the iconic radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last month has left astronomers with a host of questions about what went wrong and what…
Continue readingFar-off in the Milky Way galaxy, 21,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have spotted the fastest-spinning magnetar (and possibly youngest, too) ever seen. And that’s just the start of what makes…
Continue readingBy Leah Crane Spinning stars have revealed that the Milky Way may have less dark matter than previously thoughtALFREDO RUIZ HUERGA / Alamy Our galaxy may have slightly less dark…
Continue readingScientists have taken a fresh look at the universe to determine its age, settling old debates. (Image credit: EPFL) The universe is (nearly) 14 billion years old, astronomers confirm. With…
Continue readingFrom an observatory high above Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe. Their observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, suggest…
Continue readingEver since 1992, when astronomers first discovered two rocky planets orbiting a pulsar in the constellation Virgo, humans have known that other worlds exist beyond our solar system. Today, thanks to the…
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