Mars owes its name to the god of war in Roman mythology (Ares, according to the Greeks), son of the gods Jupiter and Juno (or…
Pluto’s dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons
The dark side of Pluto is faintly illuminated by sunlight reflected by the moon Charon in images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015…
State-of-the-art energetic and morphological modelling of the launching site of the M87 jet
The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is surrounded by an accretion disk (red in this computer simulation) and launches jets (blue) circled by…
Black hole found hiding in star cluster outside our galaxy
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how…
Medieval Space Flight? A Company Is Catapulting Rockets to Cut Costs
SpinLaunch’s Suborbital Accelerator Why use unsustainable rocket propellants for small satellite launches when you could just catapult them into space? It might sound like a…
The lack of black holes in telescopes is caused by biases
Biases in the observation of telescopes explain why black holes with stellar mass greater than 20 times the sun are not detected, although they are…
The expansion of the universe makes black holes grow
A new study suggests that the growth of black holes does not depend on the absorption of material from dead stars: these mysterious structures could…
Hubble Revisits the Veil Nebula
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a…
Astronomers Say Black Holes Are Gaining Mass as the Universe Grows
Sometimes nature unlocks when we examine the way we look at it. Black holes remain a focal point for cosmic mysteries, one of which asks…
Black hole bonanza: Astronomers discover 32 collisions and one mystery merger
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration dropped its latest batch of gravitational wave detections on Sunday, and it’s a big one. Thirty-five events have been catalogued and,…