NASA’s visualization team created an overlay of an image of the Milky Way, taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Observatory, and a visualization…
The Telescopes of the Future, and What We Will See Through Them
In the last decade, spectacular progress has been made in the exploration of the cosmos. Milestones include detailed studies of the planets and moons in…
Black hole that was closest yet found does not exist, say scientists in U-turn
Astronomers who thought they had discovered a black hole at our cosmic doorstep said they were wrong, revealing instead that they found a two-star system…
The Unanticipated Phenomenology of the Blazar PKS 2131–021: A Unique Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate
Most large galaxies host supermassive black holes in their nuclei and are subject to mergers, which can produce a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB), and…
Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution
An artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope, fully deployed. The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to be fully operational this summer. Credit:…
Astronomers Find Two Giant Black Holes Spiraling Toward a Collision
In this illustration, light from a smaller black hole (left) curves around a larger black hole and forms an almost-mirror image on the other side.…
The Tycho supernova remnant by NASA’s Chandray Observatory
It was the astronomical event of the last millennium, second only to the discoveries in this millennium of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, as they are…
Black Hole: Everything that you should know about it in 2022
With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered for the first time an isolated stellar-mass black hole, heading toward the bulge at…
Supermassive black hole caught hiding in a ring of cosmic dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust in the center of the galaxy Messier 77…
Quantum entanglement. Telecom-heralded entanglement between multimode solid-state quantum memories
Until now, the entanglement of quantum memories and the storage of photons inside had been achieved separately, but researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences…