Image credit: NASA Perseverance collects the first sample of MarsThose responsible for the NASA explorer project, which landed on the planet almost seven months ago,…
Rerun of supernova blast expected to appear in 2037 /phys.org/
It’s challenging to make predictions, especially in astronomy. There are however, a few forecasts astronomers can depend on, such as the timing of upcoming lunar…
What is hidden in the heart of our galaxy? The story of our supermassive black hole
Image credit: LIGO/CALTECH/MIT/SONOMA STATE (AURORE SIMONNET) It was not easy to deduce the existence of black holes, and even less to discover that the center…
The influence of the planets could affect the solar magnetic activity
Image credit: SimonK An international scientific team with the participation of researchers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) proposes an explanation of how…
A gigantic dormant black hole triggers star formation
Image credit: DERF/NC American astronomers have detected an unusual number of stars in the distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049. The lack of control in their formation…
This will be our collision with Andromeda
Hubble Space Telescope image of the Andromeda galaxy M31 (credit: NASA, ESA) A spectacular new image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the collision of…
Can a primordial black hole collide with Earth?Although perhaps the appropriate verb is not “crash”, but “dive.”
Can a primordial black hole collide with Earth?Although perhaps the appropriate verb is not “crash”, but “dive.”At the beginning of the 20th century, it was…
In 2031 we will have a visit: a star that orbits the Sun every 612,190 years will pass near Saturn
2014 UN271 is not a particularly flashy name, but the star it gives its name certainly is. An object larger than comets and at the…
How the activity of a supermassive black hole shapes its galaxy
picture of black hole by Alain .This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 New insights into how central supermassive black holes…
Astronomers discover how to power a supermassive black hole
Image credit: Astry / ASZ Astronomers discover how to power a supermassive black holeScientists seek to understand how black holes wake up and, after a…