More than two decades of ongoing analysis of supernova explosions strongly supports modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions. Astrophysicists have performed…
76 years ago today, the first views of Earth from Space were delivered from a captured V-2 rocket
On October 24, 1946, the first image of the Earth could be taken. For this, a camera mounted on the rocket that belonged to the…
Could it devour us? Black hole discovered near Earth
Will we be in danger? Recently, a scientific study revealed that there is an extremely giant black hole near the Earth. Likewise, the monstrous hole…
This is how they have achieved quantum teleportation that opens the way to the internet of the future
They show that the teleportation of quantum bits in a network without cables or waves is possible, with a view to a safer internet As…
Mystery object may be a ‘strange star’ made of quarks, scientists say
A relatively small, dense object disguised within a cloud that exploded a few thousand light-years away challenges our understanding of stellar physics. By all accounts,…
What is a gravitational lens?: windows to deep space
Credits: IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The concept of “gravitational lensing” is important to astronomy and physics in general, but what does it really mean?…
Explanation of the Cold Spot in the afterglow of the Big Bang
The circled area is the cold spot. Black lines in the Planck‘s CMB map indicates each constellation, cold spot is in Eridanus constellation. The blue circle…
All the mysteries about black holes, from A to Z
From A to ZA black hole is a region of space with such a density and concentration of mass that it generates a gravitational field…
Black hole discovered ‘shooting’ at neighboring galaxy
With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet into another galaxy. The black…
Astronomers find the most distant supernova ever seen: 10.5 billion light-years away
Astronomers have discovered the most distant supernova yet, at a distance of 10.5 billion light-years from Earth. The supernova, called DES16C2nm, is a catastrophic explosion…