UMD Astronomers Discover a New Mid-size Black Hole in NGC 1313
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
Released in 2009 to commemorate the Hubble’s 19th year in space, this image of Arp 194 shows several galaxies, along with a “cosmic fountain” of…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 3521, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away. This new image of the spiral galaxy…
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have extrapolated the character of the current galaxies in the Local Group back to the cosmic Epoch of…
The latest images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft show breathtaking views of Pluto’s majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and haunting low-lying hazes, and…
Using ultraviolet data from GALEX and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal new details about merging black holes. Entangled by gravity and destined to merge,…
Scientists from the Berkeley Lab have created a new statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools: sky surveys. The…
This new image from the Wide Field Imager camera on the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, which…
For the first time in more than 30 years, on September 27 you’ll be able to witness a supermoon in combination with a lunar…
NASA’s Cassini Mission reveals a global ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Researchers found the magnitude of the moon’s very slight wobble,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of Earth and the moon as they crossed the sun. Just before the moon entered the shot, Earth blocked…
New research form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that shocks in a distant gamma-ray burst originated in a supernova. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)–flashes of high-energy…
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, astronomers mapped the gravity field in and around more than 1,200 craters on the far side…
This newly released Cassini image shows that the night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed. We know that shadows are darker areas…
This newly released Hubble image shows a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 3921. It is known today that merging galaxies play a large…
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal that the two giant stars in binary system Epsilon Lupi have magnetic fields. A Canadian Ph.D. student has…
A newly released image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows petrified sand dunes on the surface of Mars. Some of the dark sandstone in an area…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, a team of astronomers has discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster whose heart is bursting with…