Slowing down light on microchips is a step toward a high-technology future. Chinese scientists at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, part of the Chinese…
Gravitational waves could tell us about the first minutes of the Universe’s existence
Astronomers regularly explore the universe using different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, there are problems with studying the universe this way. We can only…
A mysterious object has been discovered at the edge of the galaxy, but its properties are beyond human knowledge.
A group of astronomers from the University of Manchester have discovered an object at the edge of a galaxy that scientists thought would be difficult…
The material that filled the universe after the Big Bang is discovered in the core of a neutron star
An international group of physicists has concluded that there is an 80-90% chance that the most massive neutron stars have an ultra-dense, dispersed quark matter…
Astronomers identify 164 promising targets for HWO
Planning a large-scale astronomical mission is a long process. Part of this process is understanding what the mission calls for. A team of researchers from…
For the first time, astronomers have examined molecular clouds in which systems of two, three, and even five stars are forming.
Scientists have begun analyzing molecular cloud data collected by ALMA Radio Observatory. They then published their first results, an analysis of a large star-forming region.…
Discovery of the oldest black hole in the universe confirmed – it doesn’t fit our view of nature
The report on the discovery of the oldest black hole in the universe has been peer-reviewed and published in the journal Nature. Thanks to the…
TESS satellite discovers nine hot Jupiters
Using NASA’s TESS satellite, an international team of astronomers has discovered nine new hot Jupiters. One of the newly discovered exoplanets has almost four times…
Hubble shows galaxy exploded with supernova 2.5 billion times brighter than our Sun
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko The Hubble Space Telescope has released an image of a small galaxy, UGC 5189A, observed in the constellation Leo,…
An ancient globular cluster with a mystery at its center: unique radio images from astronomers
Have you ever looked at the night sky and pondered what is going on there? Stars, planets, comets, systems – all this appears so far…