Astrophysicists have discovered a gigantic star stream stretching 1.7 million light years through space. This phenomenon was called the Koma River. Experts believe there may…
The Sun at the diameter of London: What is a neutron star?
A neutron star is the original core of a very massive star, incredibly compressed and left “naked” without a shell. This happens when this giant…
Red flag: How do scientists know the universe is expanding?
The fact that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate is probably known to everyone in the modern world and has even spawned jokes.…
The void in the universe: the key to solving the Hubble problem and an alternative to dark matter
The universe is expanding. This fact was discovered by American astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1929. He discovered that galaxies are moving away from each other…
All of space and time trembles with the pulsation of gravitational waves.
From every corner of the universe, planets, stars, stellar debris, and other massive objects begin a complex but inherently unstable gravitational dance. Each mass bends…
Astronomers studied the disk around a massive star that was forming in another galaxy. So far, it has only been observed in the Milky Way.
Astronomers have discovered for the first time an accretion disk around a giant star forming outside the Milky Way. HH 1177 is located in the…
The first bacteria may have appeared in dense interstellar clouds
Chinese astronomers at the Zijinshan Observatory are developing the idea that life could arise in molecular clouds. His new calculations show that conditions in these…
Scientists have recorded unprecedentedly strong gravitational waves from a supermassive black hole collision
Gravitational waves caused by mega black hole collisions have been discovered, confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity. In a study published this week in the…
Gamma-ray telescope discovers cluster of neutron stars with ‘spider pulsars’
An international team of astronomers has discovered and cataloged 300 new neutron stars. The study was published in the scientific publication The Astrophysical Journal (TAJ).…
Astronomers have found traces of the oldest supernovae in the Universe
350 million years after the Big Bang, scientists have discovered traces of “heavy” elements in distant galaxies. The authors of the new study said such…