First discovered 60 years ago, quasars, which can shine as bright as a trillion stars, have long been a mystery as no one knew what…
Intermediate-mass black holes “eat” stars, then expel the leftovers
Intermediate-mass black holes, if they exist, probably gobble up rogue stars by taking a few ‘bites’ and then spewing the remains across the galaxy, say…
New image of black hole reveals a ‘fluffy’ ring
Revealed by astronomers today New images of the black hole. At the center of the galaxy M87, a softer version of the black hole’s bright…
Astronomers solve the mystery of quasars, the most powerful objects in the Universe
A group of British astronomers has managed to solve the mystery of quasars, the most powerful and brightest objects in the Universe Quasars shine as…
The natural phenomenon that threatens the earth from 160 light years away
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have helped identify a new threat to Earth: intense X-rays from exploding stars The explosions that occur when a…
Einstein’s rings suggest that dark matter behaves like a wave
We have been looking the wrong way, dark matter might not be a particle and rather behave like a wave. Dark matter is the biggest…
PSR J0901-4046 is the most magnetized radio pulsar known, according to a study
The background of both images shows continuous 1.28 GHz radio emission from the nebula surrounding the high-mass X-ray binary system Vela X-1, and its newly…
Astronomers identify a new threat to life on planets like Earth
This result has implications for the study of exoplanets and their habitability. In space there are several situations that could endanger planets like Earth, such…
JOURNEY TO THE ENDS OF THE COSMOS – PART ONE OF THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND
You, reader, we send into space; but not now, but within 5 billion years. It makes you witness the death of the Sun in an…
Astronomers discover two supermassive black holes on a collision course
Researchers found a pair of black holes embedded within two galaxies that merged when the universe was just 3 billion years old. To make the…