Image credit: Zdeněk Bardon / ESO. They have been able to see the farthest side of a black hole for the first time, confirming the…
A Supermassive Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From Us, but Its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in Our Direction
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman In 1916, Albert Einstein put the finishing touches on his Theory of General Relativity, a journey that began…
Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars with Supercomputer Simulations
An illustration with elements from NASA showing a quasar – a supermassive black hole being rapidly formed (Adobe Stock). At the center of galaxies, like…
The Hunt for Wandering Black Holes
Simulated image of a black hole wandering in the Milky Way. [SXS Lensing] Wandering supermassive black holes — those that don’t lie at their galaxies’…
Astronomers Capture Beautiful New Image of Centaurus A
An image of the galaxy Centaurus A captured by the Dark Energy Camera based in Chile. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/M. Soraisam/T.A. Rector/M. Zamani/D. de Martin) Centaurus A is…
1,001st Near-Earth Asteroid Glimpsed With Radar
1,001st near-Earth asteroidThe video above shows asteroid 2016 AJ193 rotating as it swept past Earth. NASA’s Goldstone’s 70-meter (230-foot) antenna acquired the images on August…
Spacewatch: James Webb telescope finally ready for launch
Image credit: Flickr/NASA/Chris Gunn Nasa has completed the final tests of the James Webb space telescope and is now preparing it for transportation to the launch site…
There are also dry seas and lakes on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon
Infrared image of Titan with the Sun shining on some of its lakes. NASA / JPL The presence of large liquid masses on Titan was…
This awesome Blue Mycean Mushroom
Mycena interrupta is a species of small basidiomycete fungus of the genus Mycenas, of the order Agaricales and of the family Mycenaceae, popularly known as…
They find a second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn
Image credit: NASA The Cassini probe detected this hexagonal-shaped vortex, very similar to the one discovered in the 1980s by the Voyager mission, shortly before…