NASA Image of the Day – Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
The NASA image of the day shows the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy M81. At the center of the spiral galaxy…
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Volunteers Discover Four Cosmic Lighthouses in Fermi Data
Using the distributed computing project Einstein@Home, international volunteers discover four cosmic lighthouses in data from NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. The combination of globally distributed…
Reverse Shock Wave Racing Inward at 1000 Times the Speed of Sound
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward at 1000 times the speed of sound is heating…
Astronomers Find Evidence That Galaxies in Groups are Running Out of Fuel
Using the Arecibo telescope, the largest radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers have found evidence that galaxies that are located in…
Astronomers Observe Trio of Young Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have discovered a trio of young galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of…
Astronomers View Cosmic Blast GRB 130427A in Unique Detail
Five newly published studies from astronomers around the world detail one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever seen, GRB 130427A. On April 27, a blast…
Astronomers Find New Evidence of a High-Energy Jet in the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Using data from Chandra and the VLA, astronomers uncovered new evidence for the presence of a jet of high-energy particles blasting out of the Milky…
Researchers Simulate the Formation of Massive Stars from Turbulent Molecular Clouds
Using the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, researchers perform large-scale supercomputing simulations of massive stars forming from the collapse of giant,…
New Algorithm Allows Astronomers to Track the Process of Star Formation in the Early Universe
Astronomers have developed a new computational algorithm that allows them to follow the star formation process down to the very small scales, tracking the development…
New Data Reveals Two Galaxies Masquerading as One
New detailed radio data has revealed that what scientists thought was spiral galaxy UGC 10288 is actually two galaxies, one lying behind the other. What…
Hubble Reveals the First Visual Evidence of Changes in the Milky Way
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a newly published study reveals the first visual evidence of how the Milky Way has evolved over the…
Contents of Mysterious Black Hole Jets Revealed
Using data from the XMM-Newton satellite and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array, astronomers reveal the contents of mysterious black hole jets. An international team of…
Spitzer and ALMA Reveal Stellar Birth
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly published study reveals a new look at stellar birth. It’s…
Astronomers Discover “Old Young” Stars in the Eagle Nebula
While studying 110 stars located in the Eagle Nebula, astronomers discovered pre-main-sequence stars that were red in color and showed evidence for accretion, but were…
Astronomers Discover a New Type of Quasar
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have discovered a new type of quasar in which gas appears to be heading away and…
Voyager 1 Presents the “Sounds” of Interstellar Space
A new ScienceCast video answers the question, what does interstellar space sound like? As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are listening for…
Research Sheds New Light on Dark Energy
Dartmouth researchers shed new light on dark energy and eliminate the possibility that our planet, solar system and galaxy are at the center of the…
New Model Shows How a Collapsing Star Results in Two Black Holes that Form and Fuse
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that formed in the early Universe. The study shows that…