Cosmic microwave radiation background. Credits: NASA See part of the galactic record right here where they formed billions of years ago when the universe was…
Astronomers detect a giant neutron star that existed for mere milliseconds
Merged neutron stars, pictured here, produce a gamma-ray burst when they come together and collapse into a black hole. Observations of two explosions made by…
Black holes that devastate the same stars over and over again captured by the Newtonian telescope
Image Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Two teams of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black…
I found a pair of black holes too close, at the center of a galactic merger
Using the ALMA radio interferometer to study a pair of merging galaxies, a research team found two supermassive black holes growing at the center of…
Two black holes grow together in a close galactic merger
ALMA Scientists Find A Pair Of Black Holes Dining Together In A Merger Of Nearby Galaxies -MICHAEL KOSS. Two simultaneously growing supermassive black holes have…
Astronomers detect a gigantic neutron star that existed for only a fraction of a second
Reverberations in the fabric of space-time propagate throughout the universe, and astrophysicists are sometimes able to notice such shocks. A team of astronomers has examined…
Hubble finds a black hole twisting a star
This sequence of artist’s illustrations shows how a black hole can devour a star that has come close to it – NASA, ESA, LEAH HUSTAK…
System with two small worlds in habitable zone at 100 light years
In this illustration, the recently discovered Earth-sized planet TOI 700 e orbits in the habitable zone of its star. Its Earth-sized brother, TOI 700 d,…
There’s a star in the Milky Way halfway to Andromeda
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the stellar halo of the Milky Way. The most distant…
Astronomers discover a ‘hot Jupiter’ of 1,950 million years about 528 light years from Earth
The new extrasolar planet, named TOI-778 b, has a radius 1.37 times the size of Jupiter and an equilibrium temperature of 1,287 °C. An international…