The Haro 11 galaxy. Like Tololo 0440-381, this nearby galaxy gives off a type of radiation that scientists think resembles the characteristics of the earliest…
Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger Detected for the First Time
For the first time, scientists from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Florida believe they have detected a merger of two…
How many black holes are out there in the universe?
The number of black holes in the observable Universe (a sphere with a diameter of about 90 billion light years) is currently about 40 trillion,…
Disclosure or deception? New UFO Pentagon office divides believers
By Alex Seitz-Wald NBC News WASHINGTON — The US Government is finally getting back on the UFO issue. And depending on which UFO believer you…
Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 continues to pack a punch, defying astronomers’ expectations.Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe: ripping apart stars,…
Photos of huge asteroid 1994 PC1. It passed Earth safely January 18
Here’s an image of asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 during a flyby of Earth in 1997. The space rock appears as a trail due to its…
Our Milky Way’s central black hole flashes unpredictably
This X-ray image of the galactic center merges all of Swift’s observations from 2006 to 2013. Sagittarius A* is in the center. Low energy X-rays…
Growing food in space: the last frontier
Sure, space travel is great, but there’s no shortage of challenges when it comes to space travel and colonization, primarily having enough oxygen, food, and…
What’s next? 7 nascent technologies for 2022
Solar GeoengineeringShe seems childishly simple. If the world gets too hot, why not offer her some shade? Dust and ash released by volcanoes into the…
New Evidence of Gravitational Wave Background Permeating All of Spacetime
If what little we know about gravitational waves is correct, there should be something known as a gravitational wave background, a kind of resonant “buzz”…