The HSC observed the sky for a total of 330 nights over six years, and different teams of researchers analyzed the data in different ways.…
Scientists believe that the Small Magellanic Cloud is actually made up of two separate galaxies.
An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud is not one galaxy, but two galaxies, one behind the other.…
Ultra-short orbit exoplanet discovered
arXiv: Heaviest planet discovered in ultra-short orbit Planet TOI-1347 b has a radius 1.8 times that of Earth and orbits its parent star every 0.85…
‘Eats’ the sun in a day: the fastest growing black hole ever discovered
Astronomers already know of many black holes of different sizes and types, but no telescope has ever seen a monster capable of absorbing as much…
Astronomers discover record-breaking bright, fast-growing quasar The mass of the inner black hole is 17 billion times that of the Sun.
DSS2 image of J0529-4351 superimposed on a Dark Energy Survey sky imageESO / Digitized Sky Survey 2 / Dark Energy Survey Astronomers have discovered the…
Hidden traces of thousands of young stars discovered at the center of the Milky Way
Crédit: ESO/F. Nogueras-Lara et al. Hundreds of thousands of stars are contained in this Picture of the Week, an infrared image of Sagittarius C, a…
Astronomers have discovered the “hungriest” black hole that “eats” the entire sun in a single day.
Australian astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that absorbs as much material in a day as the sun does. This black hole already has…
Astronomers have discovered the brightest object in the universe. Quasar J0529-4351 is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun.
Astronomers have discovered the brightest object in the universe. Quasar J0529-4351 is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun. This record-breaking quasar consumes one solar…
Kuiper belt surprise: Eris and Makemake could be warmer than we thought
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an unexpected discovery. Signs of geothermal activity have been detected on the distant Kuiper Belt dwarf planets…
Scientists have created a ‘giant quantum vortex’ modeled after a black hole
Scientists have created a ‘giant quantum vortex’ modeled after a black hole Black holes are difficult to study, so physicists have “built” a powerful quantum…