The supernova remnant N 63 A in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Pac-Man. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/HEIC and The Hubble…
Black hole riddles: the more we find, the less we know
Source: Kristof Wesely/Wikimedia Commons New data on the object found 57 years ago in Cygnus X-1 forces us to review the models of mass loss by…
The 10 largest black holes in the Universe
We have never seen them directly (although in 2019 we got the first real “image”), but we know perfectly well that they are there. And…
PLUTO’S UNUSUAL ORBIT /airandspace. si. edu/
Credit: NASA, ESA, SRI (M. Buie) It takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to complete one orbit around the Sun. Its orbital path doesn’t lie…
A telescope manages to capture the first image of several planets revolving around a star similar to the Sun
Star TYC 8998-760-1 (with its light blocked) and its two exoplanets (marked with arrows). The other bright spots are stars in the background The Very…
Quantum gravity would be hidden in black holes
Astronomers in the UK have discovered that black holes can become the gateway to quantum gravity, considered the holy grail of New Physics. They have…
PLUTO’S ATMOSPHERE MAY BE STARTING TO CONDENSE /spaceflightinsider. com /
Pluto’s atmosphere backlit by the Sun, photographed by New Horizons as it departed the Pluto system. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI Three years after the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic…
Black hole what will happen if you get there
The English Roger Penrose, the German Reinhard Genzel and the American Andrea Ghez, were recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for their work…
Light behind a black hole detected for the first time
A supermassive black hole is so dense that the light that enters cannot come out again, but the detection of small X-ray flashes has allowed…
Merging Black Holes vs. Gas and Stars /aasnova. org/
This simulated image shows a massive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Some massive black holes may be the result of mergers between…