This supports the magnetized accretion disk model. A collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has discovered circularly polarized radiation from the immediate vicinity of…
Astronomers discover for the first time the possibility of an exoplanet with a multipolar orbit
Astronomers have discovered the first candidate exoplanet with a polar multi-orbit. Its existence could explain the gap in the circumpolar binary disk surrounding the AC…
Astronomers have discovered the oldest spiral galaxy – a twin of the Milky Way
The James Webb Infrared Space Telescope has discovered the oldest barred spiral galaxy ever discovered. It is very similar to our Milky Way, but it…
Record-breaking supermassive black hole discovered
When the universe was around 500 million years old, this unusual black hole had already accumulated enormous mass. By analyzing its evolution, astronomers were able…
Astronomers have found “hidden” quasars
Quasars have different characteristics that represent different stages in the origin of these bright objects. Also, despite their brightness, many of them managed to “hide”…
An unusual phenomenon has been discovered in black holes: they eat food in a different way than expected
Astronomers have discovered that supermassive black holes have a special mechanism that prevents them from growing. The black hole at the center of the galaxy…
Gas giant planets revealed as ‘agents of chaos’
Gas giants can prevent the emergence of life on neighboring planets, being “agents of chaos”. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the University…
A failed replica of the solar system found in data from the Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope stopped collecting data in 2018, but remains a source of discoveries. To date, Kepler’s data contain the largest collection of exoplanets…
Scientists are wary of the behavior of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
An object roughly the size of the solar system not only contains hundreds of billions of stars around it, but also twists the invisible “fabric”…
The active core of the Circulus galaxy has dispersed almost all the gas that fell into it Only a small portion of the gas will be absorbed by the black hole
The ground-based ALMA radio telescope has helped astronomers determine that only a tiny fraction of the gas flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the…