A new study may shed light on just how fast the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole spins.This illustration shows the results of a recent study…
The Event Horizon telescope has discovered an ordered magnetic field near a black hole. It is also involved in the birth of jet aircraft.
Zoom on Perseus A with the Event Horizon Telescope revealing details of the powerful jet it emits.Credit: Georgios Filippos Paraschos (MPIfR) The Event Horizon Telescope…
Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown source of stardust
Study of Type Ia supernovae expands knowledge of dust formation and its role in the evolution of stars and galaxies An international team of astronomers…
The Event Horizon telescope has discovered an ordered magnetic field near a black hole.
The Event Horizon Telescope probed the region near the supermassive black hole of the active Perseus A galaxy and estimated the parameters of its magnetic…
Astronomers used the FAST radio telescope to discover a pulsar within the supernova remnant CTB 87.
Radio signals from the wind nebula of supernova CTB 87 – a new step towards understanding the evolution of supernovaeUsing the FAST radio telescope with…
Terrifying Archer A*: Rotation, Space-Time
Have you ever wondered what’s going on in the Milky Way, the center of our galaxy? Something amazing and terrifying is hiding there – a…
The James Webb Space Telescope captures exoplanets like the giants of the solar system orbiting white dwarfs – the future form of our Sun
The JWST images revealing the exoplanet candidates. (Mullally et al., arXiv, 2024) Discoveries that reveal the fate of the solar system Scientists have concluded that a…
Astronomers may have discovered a strange sun powered by dark matter
Astronomers say they have found evidence that stars were formed by the annihilation of dark matter particles. If this is true, it could help solve…
A group of astronomers studied the history of star formation in the Wolf-Landmark-Mellott galaxy
A research team led by astronomers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick is using massive amounts of data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Data from the James Webb Telescope confirmed that the first black holes were not formed from stars.
The question of the birthright of stars and black holes is a chicken-and-egg question. What came first? We are witnessing massive stars turning into black…