For the first time, we have observed a 50-year-old Stephen Hawking theorem in the natural world. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the…
They detect an intermediate mass black hole with a gravitational lens
Australian researchers have detected, thanks to a gravitational lens, a black hole of about 55,000 solar masses, a kind of body whose formation process has…
They discover that hot gas from an active black hole behaves like a volcanic eruption
An international team of researchers has observed for the first time the evolution of hot gas from an active black hole. In their observations, they…
Astronomers discover how black holes feed
An unprecedented find. A group of astronomers manage to capture the process of nuclear power by a black hole galaxy NGC 1566, through the detection…
Scientists Discover Two ‘Previously Invisible’ Galaxies 29 Billion Light Years Away
One in five distant galaxies could be hidden behind cosmic dust, scientists say, discovering two previously invisible systems 29 billion light-years away.Experts discover two galaxies…
Astronomers detect a black hole beyond our galaxy for the first time
A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 1850. Credit: ESA, NASA and Martino Romaniello (European Southern Observatory, Germany). It is a cluster of thousands…
The brilliant “butterfly wings” of the PN M2-9 Nebula
Image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble This new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the impressive complexity of the PN M2-9 Nebula, also known as the…
The Greatest Mysteries of Neptune
Image credit: NASA In 1846, when European astronomers debated what to name a newly discovered eighth planet, they finally settled on Neptune, in honor of…
Astronomers may have detected a strange ‘missing link’ black hole in our closest neighbor
Globular cluster B023-G78 in the Andromeda galaxy. (Pechetti et al., ArXiv, 2021) A rare treasure that could shed light on the evolution of black holes…
The Cat’s Eye Nebula
Image credit: NASA Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543, Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Draco. Structurally, it is one of the most…