Image Credit: NASA Jupiter, its magnetic environment and its moons form one of the most intriguing systems in the Solar System. Scheduled to launch in…
NASA captures the sound of a black hole: this is how the enigmatic Perseus Cluster sounds
Scientists have been able to translate the sounds of the black hole through sound waves captured by NASA’s Chandra X observatory. NASA produced a sonification…
The 10 largest black holes in the Universe
Black holes are the most amazing celestial objects because, in addition to breaking all the laws of physics, they can become monsters billions of times…
Stealth black hole discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation, and gravitational waves
There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research. Albert Einstein first published his book explaining the theory of…
Most Americans think NASA’s $10 billion space telescope is a good investment
An image of the Carina Nebula, taken by JWST Image: NASA almost NASA has shared the first stunning photos taken by the new agency, the mighty…
The “black hole police” discover the first dormant black hole outside the Milky Way, and it’s just 160,000 light-years from Earth
Image of the Tarantula Nebula, about 160,000 light-years away, showing a cosmic landscape of star clusters, glowing gas clouds, and scattered remnants of supernova explosions.…
The Carina Nebula is one of the first targets of the James Webb Space Telescope.
This image shows a ground-based view of the giant star-forming region in the southern sky known as the Carina Nebula, combining light from three different…
The first galaxies rotated slowly, accelerating over billions of years
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 691, captured in fantastic detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). This galaxy is the namesake member…
The fastest known star: 8,000 kilometers per second
Researchers from the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole…
The final fate of a star destroyed by a black hole
In 2019, astronomers observed the closest example to date of a star being shredded or “spaghetti” after getting too close to a massive black hole.…