How Does Binary Star System AR Scorpii Emit Energy
New research from Notre Dame lends support to an existing theory of how binary star system AR Scorpii emits energy. Astronomers studying the unique binary…
New research from Notre Dame lends support to an existing theory of how binary star system AR Scorpii emits energy. Astronomers studying the unique binary…
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers measures how a galaxy’s spin affects its shape. It sounds simple, but measuring a galaxy’s true…
In a new study, astronomers modeled observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni during the most active phase of its June 2015 outburst….
New research on black holes believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how gold, platinum and uranium are created. A long-standing…
In a new study, researchers led by the University of Leicester will “test our understanding of how the Universe works, particularly outside the relatively narrow…
The movements of more than 300,000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of…
Astronomers have mapped the gas distribution and velocities in the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares, delivering insights into the fate of a star….
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that UV light may have played a critical role in the emergence of life…
Astronomers have detected CH+ for the first time in the distant Universe, opening up a new window of exploration into a critical epoch of star…
After observing a nearby galaxy from which ultraviolet light is escaping, astronomers hypothesize that black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies and allowed light to…
Hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine contradict a long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes. Z, the most…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years…
A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the…
Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers provide the most detailed study yet of the Pleiades star cluster. The…
Exploding stars carry cloak of dense material that puzzles astronomers. A team of astronomers has detected the first X-rays from what appears to be a…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have concluded from a systematic study of very young cores that most embryonic stars form in multiple systems,…
A submillimeter study of a different massive dusty galaxy in the early universe uses carbon monoxide gas to characterize the interstellar medium and determine the…
Physicists have now come up with a new theory on how dark matter may have been formed, proposing an alternative to the WIMP paradigm. Only…