Black Hole Consumes Gas 10 Times Faster Than Previously Thought Possible
In a new study, a team of astronomers reveals that the black hole known as P13 is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times…
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NuSTAR Discovers Brightest Pulsar to Date
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have detected the brightest pulsar to date, located about 12 million light-years away in the galaxy Messier 82….
Astronomers Use Telescopes to Track Laws of Nature 10 Billion Years Ago
Using the three most powerful optical telescopes in the world, astronomers from Swinburne University have focused on a single point in the sky to test…
Astronomers Explore the First Three Billion Years of Stars
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers studied the first few billion years of the universe to determine…
NASA’s Swift Detects a Massive Superflare from a Red Dwarf Star
NASA’s Swift satellite detected a massive superflare from a red dwarf star in the binary system DG CVn. The initial blast was as much as…
ALMA Finds Direct Evidence That Merging Galaxies Can Form Disc Galaxies
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and several other radio telescopes, astronomers find direct evidence that merging galaxies can form disc galaxies instead of…
Architecture of Kepler’s Multi-Transiting Systems
A new study details the orbital architectures of Kepler systems having multiple planet candidates, revealing 899 transiting planet candidates in 365 multiple-planet systems and providing…
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal an Unusual Death for Ancient Supermassive Stars
New supercomputer simulations show that non-rotating supermassive primordial stars can die as highly energetic thermonuclear supernovae powered by explosive helium burning, releasing about 10,000 times…
Astronomers Detect Iso-Propyl Cyanide Close to the Galactic Center
A team of astronomers has detected the presence of iso-propyl cyanide in interstellar space, opening a new frontier in the chemistry of star formation. There…
Study Reveals Water on Earth is Older Than Our Sun
A newly published study from the Carnegie Institution for Science reveals that a significant fraction of our Solar System’s water is older than the Sun…
Why Binary Stars Are So Abundant
New research from the Carnegie Institution for Science helps to explain why binary stars are so abundant. Washington, D.C. — New modeling studies from Carnegie’s…
New Research Mathematically Proves Quantum Effects Stop the Formation of Black Holes
New research by Laura Mersini-Houghton at UNC-Chapel Hill mathematically proves that quantum effects are strong enough to stop the formation of black holes, opening up…
ALMA Sees Signs of Windy Weather Around an Infant Solar System
Using ALMA data, astronomers have observed what may be the first-ever signs of windy weather around a T Tauri star. Astronomers using the Atacama Large…
New Model Demonstrates That Stars Can Absorb Gravitational Ripples
A newly published study contradicts previous assumptions about the behavior of gravitational waves, demonstrating that stars can absorb the energy of gravitational waves. Scientists have…
The Bermuda Triangle of Space: New Video Explores the South Atlantic Anomaly
This newly released six-minute video details the mysterious region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – an area where the Earth’s inner Van Allen radiation…
Large Galaxies Gain Size by Merging with Smaller Neighbors
A newly published study examined galaxy growth, revealing that massive galaxies are much less efficient at star formation than smaller galaxies and instead grew by…
Harvard Study Confirms Distance to the Pleiades Cluster
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a new distance measurement to the Pleiades Cluster, strengthening the existing astrophysical models and contradicting an…
Hubble Reveals Smallest Known Galaxy with Supermassive Black Hole
A team of researchers has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of ultra-compact galaxy M60-UCD1, making this galaxy the smallest ever found to…