Astronomers Discover First-Ever Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
Astronomers discover the most distant pair of merging quasars, seen only 900 million years after the Big Bang. This period, known as the Cosmic Dawn,…
Astronomers discover the most distant pair of merging quasars, seen only 900 million years after the Big Bang. This period, known as the Cosmic Dawn,…
An international team, with the assistance of ESA satellites, and including researchers from UNIGE, has detected a massive eruption emanating from a magnetar, an extremely…
Hubble’s image of RCW 7 reveals massive protostars in the Puppis constellation transforming a molecular cloud into a glowing H II region, showcasing the birth…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope might reveal previously undetected “featherweight” black holes with masses similar to Earth’s. These primordial black holes, formed in the…
What Is a White Dwarf? A white dwarf is the stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear fuel and cast…
For the first time, astronomers mapped the outflows from one of the closest quasars — I Zwicky 1. Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered…
The Einstein Telescope, set to begin observations in 2035, will expand our capability to detect gravitational waves, offering new insights into the universe’s most dramatic…
Michigan State University researchers have made important discoveries about the supermassive black hole at our galaxy’s center, presenting their findings based on NuSTAR X-ray data….
Only the James Webb Space Telescope can detect and investigate these galaxies, which were forming within dense, opaque gas when the universe was only a…
James Webb Space Telescope data reveals WASP-107 b has significantly less methane than expected and a surprisingly large core, providing key insights into its atmospheric…
Ancient starlight from the earliest quasars has been captured by MIT astronomers, revealing that some of earliest “monster” black holes likely grew from massive cosmic…
New observations spotlight the volatile processes that shape star systems like our own, offering a unique glimpse into the primordial stages of planetary formation. Astronomers…
A newly discovered L subdwarf is on an unusual journey through our galaxy. The Sun is orbiting the Milky Way at 220 kilometers per second,…
Recent research indicates that neutron stars might quickly heat up due to dark matter collisions, offering a new way to detect and study dark matter….
Machine learning revolutionizes distance measurement in astronomy, providing precise estimates for gamma-ray bursts and aiding in cosmic exploration. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has…
A study analyzing the properties of polarized light from 128 non-repeating FRBs reveals mysterious cosmic explosions originate in far-away galaxies like our own Milky Way….
Webb finds 10 times more supernovae in the early universe than known before. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is proving to excel as a supernova…
New astrophysical research highlights a significant cosmic event two million years ago when the solar system passed through a dense interstellar cloud. This possibly altered…