For the First Time, NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Star-Shredding Black Hole [Video]
For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a…
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Missing Seeds: Mysterious Enigma of Supermassive Black Holes
In the vast garden of the universe, the heaviest black holes grew from seeds. Nourished by the gas and dust they consumed, or by merging…
Stunning New Black Hole Visualization From NASA Illustrates How Its Gravity Distorts Our View
This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The…
Astrophysicists Devised Clever New Way to Measure a Black Hole’s Mass
There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have devised a new way for indirectly…
New Interstellar Visitor Is Confirmed and It Has a Name
Second interstellar object has been spotted and named just two years after the first. A new object from interstellar space has been found within the…
Could We Feed One Million People Living on Mars? A Provocative New Study With a Detailed Model.
A provocative new study looks at the resource utilization and technological strategies that would be needed to make a Mars population of one million people…
Powerful Pulsating Gamma Rays Emitted From Neutron Star Rotating an Incredible 707 Times a Second
Second fastest spinning radio pulsar known is a gamma-ray pulsar, too. Multi-messenger observations look closely at the system and raise new questions. An international research…
Discovery of Comet Gateway to Inner Solar System Alters Fundamental Understanding of Comet Evolution
Our understanding of comets is linked to knowing our solar system’s early composition. A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may…
New Study Reveals Evidence That Venus Was Once Habitable
Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until a dramatic transformation starting over 700 million years ago resurfaced…
Einstein’s General Relativity Validated 10 Years Ahead of Schedule by ‘Ringing’ Black Hole
Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old ‘no-hair theory’ of black hole properties. For the first time, astrophysicists…
Understanding the Mysteries of the Cosmos: New Clues to Dark Matter From Primordial Black Holes
Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the universe. Moving through cosmic forests…
Astronomers Have Seen Signs of “Life” at the Center of Messier 110
Many of the best-loved galaxies in the cosmos are remarkably large, close, massive, bright, or beautiful, often with an unusual or intriguing structure or history….
Solar Phenomena Including Sunspots Explained by Plasma Flow Near Sun’s Surface
For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on the sun’s surface. They have observed but…
Six Galaxies Captured Undergoing Sudden, Dramatic Transitions
Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within months. Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes,…
Surprise: Saturn’s Icy Rings May Actually Be As Old As the Solar System Itself
Research of Cassini data suggests icy rings are as old as the solar system itself. No one knows for certain when Saturn’s iconic rings formed,…
Artificial Intelligence Proves 30% More Accurate Than Humans at Analyzing Dark Matter
A team of physicists and computer scientists at ETH Zurich has developed a new approach to the problem of dark matter and dark energy in…
New Observations May Finally Explain the Mysterious Fading of Tabby’s Star
A Columbia study suggests chunks of an exomoon’s dusty outer layers of ice, gas and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding star….
Astronomers Detect Massive Neutron Star That Is Almost Too Massive to Exist [Video]
Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object…