New Research Finds That Supermassive Black Holes Could Form From Dark Matter
A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather…
A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather…
To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo gravitational collapse. The larger the galaxy, the more cold gas it…
Astronomers are Bulging with Data Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way For the first time, over 250 million stars in…
According to a new study from the University of Copenhagen, Earth, Venus, and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The…
For decades after its discovery, observers could only see the solar chromosphere for a few fleeting moments: during a total solar eclipse, when a bright…
From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter’s clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph…
A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino — a particularly elusive particle — in the wake of a star’s destruction…
Gaia survey provides location and motion of 1.3 million binary pairs within 3,000 light-years of Earth. The latest star data from the Gaia space observatory…
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features NGC4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma…
About eighty-five percent of the matter in the cosmos emits neither light nor any other known kind of radiation as far as is known, and…
Dark Energy Survey Finds New Evidence for Emerging Way to Measure Dark Matter Scientists may have found another way to measure the distribution of dark…
Astronomers found something they weren’t expecting at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of…
Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies is difficult because so many different physical processes besides just gravity are involved, including processes associated with star…
Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the…
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…
In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of our solar system. From relatively small rock and water worlds…
Study shows super-Earths are not leftovers of mini-Neptunes, challenging our understanding of planetary formation. Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our…
A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets, according to research co-led by Dartmouth….