A relatively small, dense object disguised within a cloud that exploded a few thousand light-years away challenges our understanding of stellar physics. By all accounts,…
What is a gravitational lens?: windows to deep space
Credits: IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The concept of “gravitational lensing” is important to astronomy and physics in general, but what does it really mean?…
Explanation of the Cold Spot in the afterglow of the Big Bang
The circled area is the cold spot. Black lines in the Planck‘s CMB map indicates each constellation, cold spot is in Eridanus constellation. The blue circle…
All the mysteries about black holes, from A to Z
From A to ZA black hole is a region of space with such a density and concentration of mass that it generates a gravitational field…
Black hole discovered ‘shooting’ at neighboring galaxy
With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet into another galaxy. The black…
Astronomers find the most distant supernova ever seen: 10.5 billion light-years away
Astronomers have discovered the most distant supernova yet, at a distance of 10.5 billion light-years from Earth. The supernova, called DES16C2nm, is a catastrophic explosion…
Aliens: 5 places where there is a possibility of life
The possibility of extraterrestrial life has always revealed us, although so far there is no definitive answer. In this case, science presents 5 feasible places.…
“Not even light escapes”: this is how a black hole really works
Nothing, not even light, can escape from black holes. We explain what these cosmic titans are and how they originate.The heart of the Milky Way…
On Mars there are already more than 7,000 kilograms of space debris created by humans
The Perseverance rover’s “backshell” lies where it fell in early 2021 on the surface of Mars’s Jezero Crater.NASA / JPL-Caltech 60 years of missions have…
A peculiar and gigantic radio galaxy is being investigated by astronomers
LOFAR radio image of GRG-J2233+1315 at 144 MHz. Credit: Dabhade et al, An international team of astronomers has made radio and optical observations of a…