Chandra Reveals Extended Hard X-ray Emission from a Galactic Nucleus
Using Chandra, a team of astronomers has found that the nuclear region emitting hard X-rays in galaxy ESO 428-G014 is more than ten times larger…
Using Chandra, a team of astronomers has found that the nuclear region emitting hard X-rays in galaxy ESO 428-G014 is more than ten times larger…
(Article translated to English) Astronomers from the University of Amsterdam have developed a model to explain the formation of planetary system Trappist-1 and other compact…
Using ALMA, astronomers have found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life – around Sun-like stars at a very early stage…
Chandra has observed the R Aquarii system many times over the last 17 years, helping astronomers better understand how this volatile stellar pair interacts with…
A Nearby white dwarf star helps confirm Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and the history and evolution of galaxies such as our own. Albert Einstein…
New research firms up the idea that we exist in one of the voids in the structure of the cosmos and helps ease the apparent…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the correlation between a galaxy’s stellar mass and star formation rate is a tight one….
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in…
By comparing theoretical models to Chandra surveys and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have found evidence that the very earliest supermassive black holes in…
An international team of astronomers show that a giant gas planet – up to 50x the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust…
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. The…
Using data from the Large Binocular Telescope and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers watched as a dying star was likely reborn as a…
Scientists reveal that planet-sized bodies can form a new, much larger structure called a synestia – an indented disk rather like a red blood cell…
Using the Hornet and SuperMUC supercomputers in Germany and a state-of-the-art code, a team of scientists has helped uncover the history of the galaxy. Thousands…
In a newly published study led by Australian National University, astrophysicists reveal how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms. Antimatter is material…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics present new models of star-forming filamentary clouds in order to quantify their properties and to predict their evolution….
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris…