An international team of astronomers has discovered two gas giants orbiting a Sun-like star located 175 light-years away. The work could teach us a lot…
Astronomers traced the origins of water back to a time before the Sun
A star 1,300 light-years from Earth could have revealed one of the best-kept secrets in the Solar System. It’s called V883 Orionis, a young star…
Dark Big Bang, alternative to the origin of the cosmos
The ring of darkness in this galaxy cluster, Cl 0024+17, indicates the presence of dark matter. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns…
Spiral arms of gas and dust spotted around a massive protostar
For the first time, spiral arms of gas and dust within a disk have been seen circling a massive protostar, feeding it irregular bursts of…
Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in the early universe
While analyzing data from the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Cornell University astronomers found a…
Astronomers find a ‘baby’ star growing next to the black hole in the heart of the Milky Way
A very young star in the formation phase (colloquially “baby star”) was unexpectedly discovered near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A star (Sgr A*), at…
A monstrous hidden primordial black hole could change our understanding of the Universe
Fue descubierto en una de las galaxias más extremas del Universo primitivo, que está formando estrellas a un ritmo vertiginoso A monstrous hidden primordial black…
Unique portrait of a supernova that exploded more than 1,800 years ago
Credit: National Science Foundation The RCW 86 debris ring, a remnant of the first supernova recorded in history more than 1,800 years ago by Chinese…
A rare trio of quasars forms one of the most massive object in the univers
Simulation of quasar merger. Source: DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/aca160 Ultramassive black holes with extreme masses of more than 50 billion solar masses can form in the rare…
For the first time in history, physicists see the formation of particles through quantum tunneling
Chemistry requires effort. Whether it’s raising the temperature, making the atoms more likely to meet in a hot collision, or turning up the pressure and…