Astronomers Use Gravitational Waves to Understand Black Hole Growth
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Astronomers have detected the most distant gravitational lens yet, a lensing mass so distant that the light, after having been deflected, has traveled 9.4 billion…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…
This newly released image from ESO’s Paranal Observatory shows the super star cluster Westerlund 1 and the newly discovered clouds of glowing hydrogen gas around…
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, CfA astronomers discover comet-like activity in Near-Earth Object Don Quixote. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets…
New research presented at the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences details the discovery of planetary candidates with orbital periods as short as four…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the large telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory, scientists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky…
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows elliptical galaxy PGC 6240, which is located in the southern constellation of Hydrus. The beautiful, petal-like shells of galaxy…
Using the Pan-STARRS 1 wide-field survey telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered a free-floating planet that is 80 light-years away from Earth. An international…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers captured new images of the Toby Jug Nebula. ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a remarkably detailed image…
Using new techniques to suppress Neptune’s glare, astronomers view Neptune’s innermost moon for the first time since it was discovered by Voyager 1989. Neptune’s tiny,…
A new study shows that planet 55 Cancri e is less likely to consist largely of diamond, revealing that the carbon-to-oxygen ratio appears to be…
The ALMA Observatory has received the final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array project. The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
A new study examines runaway binary LP400-22, providing key insights into runaway stars, white-dwarf binaries, and the complex interactions going on in dense stellar clusters….
New research from scientists at the University of Rochester reveals that the Fomalhaut star system contains a third star, Fomalhaut C. The nearby star system…
An international team of astronomers has observed an infrared dark cloud surrounding a baby star that is about ten times larger than those found around…