How Hubble Sees Through Cosmic Dust to Map Galaxies
Measuring cosmic distances is essential in astrophysics, with the Hubble Space Telescope being key through its observations of Type Ia supernovae. These supernovae, known for…
Measuring cosmic distances is essential in astrophysics, with the Hubble Space Telescope being key through its observations of Type Ia supernovae. These supernovae, known for…
An international research group utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to witness the dramatic interaction between a quasar inside the PJ308–21 system and two massive…
Researchers at the U.S. DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory have created nearly 4 million simulated images of the cosmos for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
Crater 2, a large, dim satellite galaxy, exhibits properties that challenge traditional cold dark matter theories. The SIDM theory provides a better explanation, suggesting dark…
Fragments from the early cosmos help unravel the mystery of our solar system’s birth. Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest…
Astronomers have revealed that spiral galaxies appeared more frequently in the early universe than previously believed, based on new findings using NASA’s James Webb Space…
New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. The Crab Nebula is a nearby example of the debris left behind when a star…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed mysterious objects in the early universe that challenge current theories of galaxy and supermassive black hole evolution. These…
Surprisingly unspectacular: Black hole already weighed over a billion solar masses in the early universe despite average appetite. Peering into the early stages of the…
New insights from the VELOCE project on Cepheid stars include detailed pulsation patterns and binary system dynamics, derived from extensive radial velocity measurements. “Classical Cepheids”…
Recent observations by ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra have revealed three unusually cold, young neutron stars, challenging current models by showing they cool much faster…
The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve…
A recent study has unveiled the origins of the mysterious “heartbeats” observed in neutron stars, relating them to glitches caused by the dynamics of superfluid…
New simulations show that neutrinos created during these cataclysmic neutron star collisions are briefly out of thermodynamic equilibrium with the cold cores of the merging…
Experiment captures atoms in free fall to look for gravitational anomalies caused by the Universe’s missing energy. Researchers at UC Berkeley have enhanced the precision…
Researchers have developed a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their evolution across the universe. Scientists at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have developed…
Investigations into gravitational waves and their relationship with Finsler geometry are providing new insights into spacetime, suggesting ways to harmonize relativity and quantum mechanics. When…
Astronomers have successfully observed brown dwarfs near bright stars for the first time, using the Gaia satellite and the Very Large Telescope’s GRAVITY instrument. Out…