A team led by the University of Maryland (United States) has developed a new instrument specifically adapted to the needs of NASA space missions consisting…
Old and new stars paint a different picture of the Triangular Galaxy
A. Smercina/MJ Durbin/J. Dalcanton/BF Williams/University of Washington/NASA/ESA This gigantic image of the Triangular Galaxy, also known as Messier 33, is a composite of 54 different…
Images capture the aftermath of a stellar collision 850 years ago
The unusual firework-like structure of the Pa 30 nebula may result from the merger of two dying stars. Photo by Robert Fesen The unusual Pa…
Astronomers confirm that galaxies did not form in 6 days but in the early universe
Cosmic microwave radiation background. Credits: NASA See part of the galactic record right here where they formed billions of years ago when the universe was…
Astronomers detect a giant neutron star that existed for mere milliseconds
Merged neutron stars, pictured here, produce a gamma-ray burst when they come together and collapse into a black hole. Observations of two explosions made by…
Black holes that devastate the same stars over and over again captured by the Newtonian telescope
Image Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Two teams of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black…
I found a pair of black holes too close, at the center of a galactic merger
Using the ALMA radio interferometer to study a pair of merging galaxies, a research team found two supermassive black holes growing at the center of…
Two black holes grow together in a close galactic merger
ALMA Scientists Find A Pair Of Black Holes Dining Together In A Merger Of Nearby Galaxies -MICHAEL KOSS. Two simultaneously growing supermassive black holes have…
Astronomers detect a gigantic neutron star that existed for only a fraction of a second
Reverberations in the fabric of space-time propagate throughout the universe, and astrophysicists are sometimes able to notice such shocks. A team of astronomers has examined…
Hubble finds a black hole twisting a star
This sequence of artist’s illustrations shows how a black hole can devour a star that has come close to it – NASA, ESA, LEAH HUSTAK…