Keck Observatory NIRC2 and adaptive optics image taken in summer 2021 showing gas and dust structures at the galactic center, including objects G and X7.…
An impossible planet
Based on current scientific knowledge of planet formation, TOI-5205b should not exist. Yet there it is. A team of astronomers, led by Shubham Kanodia of…
Astronomers publish a map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes
These aren’t ordinary stars. (LOFAR/LOL Survey) The map, which will be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, is the most detailed sky map in the…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope locates a set of huge galaxies that “shouldn’t exist”
The equipment was used to observe a set of massive galaxies that formed around 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the…
‘One in 10 billion’ binary star system discovered
Los astrónomos han descubierto un sistema estelar ‘fenomenalmente raro’ que algún día podría desencadenar una explosión enormemente poderosa que baña el espacio con oro. El…
Astronomers don’t understand why the merger of two neutron stars creates a perfect, spherical explosion
They are kilonovae and they can help to know the age of the universe and at what speed it is expanding. Let’s look at the…
Astronomers detect rogue supermassive black hole hurtling through space leaving star formation in its wake
elActual – Digital newspaper on current affairs and trendsAstronomers detect rogue supermassive black hole hurtling through space leaving star formation in its wakeFebruary 16, 2023Astronomers…
Signs of a dark object shaping a ‘tadpole’ of molecular gas
A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole because of its shape, may owe its shape to a dark, massive compact object, presumably a black…
Signs of a dark object shaping a ‘tadpole’ of molecular gas
A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole because of its shape, may owe its shape to a dark, massive compact object, predictably a black…
The perfect explosion in space is discovered
Astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a perfect spherical shape in a kilonova, formed by the collision of two orbiting neutron stars. Kilonovae…