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…
Astrophysics News
Steamy Space Mystery: Webb Telescope Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star?
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…
A Deeper Look Into M87*: New Black Hole Images Reveal a Glowing, Fluffy Ring and a High-Speed Jet
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…
Peeking Into the Cosmic Cradle: Webb Telescope Unveils a Massive Protocluster’s Baby Photos
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…
Supernova Showers: A Deadly Rain of X-rays Threatens Planets
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…
“Amazing” – Astrophysicists Have Identified the Shortest-Period, Low-Mass Stellar Binary System Ever Observed
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…
Capturing a Superflare: The Fury of Massive, High-Velocity Prominence Eruptions
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…
Exploring Cosmic Mysteries: A Deep Dive Into Our Nearest Star-Forming Galaxy
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…
Defying the Eddington Limit: NASA Unveils the Secret Behind Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources
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….
Scary Barbie: Supermassive Black Hole Tears Apart a Giant Star With “Terrifying” Energy
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….
Astrophysicists Uncover the First Bubble in an Intergalactic Stew
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…
Shedding Light on Darkness: Historic First Direct Image of a Black Hole Emitting a Powerful Jet
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…
Igniting Unrivaled Brilliance: Astronomers Solve 60-Year Mystery of Quasars – The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are…
A Surprising Result – Making Better Measurements of the Composition of Galaxies
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…
Galactic Winds Unraveled: Chandra X-Ray Observatory’s Stellar Revelation
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 Approves Construction of Its Own LIGO Gravitational-Wave Detector
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…
The Cosmic Potato: M87 Galaxy’s True 3D Shape Revealed
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…
Hydrogen’s Hidden Phase: Machine Learning Unlocks the Secrets of the Universe’s Most Abundant Element
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…
