Let There Be Light: Emerging From the Cosmic Dark Ages in the Early Universe
The early universe, known as the Cosmic Dark Ages, was devoid of light sources, consisting of a hot soup of subatomic particles that formed ionized…
The early universe, known as the Cosmic Dark Ages, was devoid of light sources, consisting of a hot soup of subatomic particles that formed ionized…
More observations will be needed to determine if exoplanet GJ 486 b has an atmosphere. GJ 486 b is about 30% larger than the Earth…
The observations will help astronomers pin down the physics of the plasma around black holes. Astronomers have used the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) to…
Protocluster Confirmed, 650 Million Years after the Big Bang How did we get here? This fundamental question may be applied on its grandest scale in…
New research reveals that supernovae can pose an additional, previously unidentified threat to nearby planets. This involves intense X-rays, generated when a supernova’s blast wave…
Astrophysicists from Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego have identified the tightest binary system ever observed among ultracool dwarfs. The two stars…
Researchers from Kyoto University used both terrestrial and satellite observations to capture a superflare on the binary star system V1355 Orionis. The superflare began with…
A Texas Tech astronomer is leading a team awarded a highly competitive Chandra program to study the stellar remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Vallia…
These objects are more than 100 times brighter than they should be. Observations by NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope support a possible solution to this puzzle….
Uncovering a star’s demise: Supermassive black hole tears apart a giant star in a display brighter, more energetic, and longer lasting than any observed before….
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reports that a team of international researchers, led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and…
In a historic first, astronomers have simultaneously imaged the shadow and jet of the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, providing new insights into how…
Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are…
A problem that has plagued astronomers working in the infrared has been resolved through a study utilizing data from both terrestrial and sky-based telescopes. The…
Researchers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied the powerful winds in the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 253, which play a crucial role…
India has approved the construction of LIGO-India, a gravitational-wave observatory that will join a global network, enhancing the ability to pinpoint sources of gravitational waves…
A Huge City of Myriad Stars Turns Out to be Potato-Shaped Though it’s estimated that the universe contains 1 trillion galaxies, they come in just…
Putting hydrogen on solid ground: simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen. A machine-learning technique developed by University of…