When scientists want to clarify whether or not an exoplanet is potentially habitable—probably the question they hear most every time they “hunt” for one of…
Quantum internet: the second quantum revolution
Quantum teleportation allows information to be transmitted between two linked quantum particles regardless of the distance that separates them. Unlike science fiction teleportation, which sends…
First glimpse of lone black hole delights astronomers
Lone black holes probably litter the galaxy, but they are extremely difficult to detect. Now, astronomers have seen, for the first time, an isolated black…
Escaping Helium from TOI 560.01, a Young Mini-Neptune
Exoplanets come in various sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small rocky planets the size of Earth or Mars. Recently, astronomers using NASA’s…
WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE SUCCESSFULLY DETECTS ITS FIRST STARLIGHT
A major milestone has been achieved in the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, with an instrument on board detecting its first photons from…
Astronomers predict an imminent collision of black holes that could be observed this 2022
Astronomers have calculated between which months the collision of these 2 cosmic objects, hundreds of millions of times more massive than the Sun, would occur.…
New study proposes a way to observe the influence of dark matter in our solar system
Dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up about 95% of the mass of our galaxy, is invisible and does not interact with light. However,…
Extraordinary black hole found in neighboring galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a 100,000-solar-mass black hole hidden in the Andromeda galaxy, inside a large star cluster: it’s a rare case among so-called intermediate-mass black…
Extraordinary black hole found in neighboring galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a black hole with 100,000 solar masses that was hiding in the Andromeda galaxy, inside a large cluster of stars: it is…
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…