Physicist Details the Shape of a Symmetrical Wormhole
A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole – a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a…
Cosmology
Astronomers Discover a Luminous Blue Kilonova, GRB150101B
On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous detection of light and gravitational waves from the same…
Is There a Relationship Between AGN and Star Formation?
Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus (a supermassive black hole is one whose mass exceeds a million solar-masses.) A key…
Astronomers Observe a Surprisingly Faint and Rapidly Fading Supernova
A Caltech-led team of researchers has observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading supernova. These…
Scientists Solve Recent Mystery at the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high…
ALMA Reveals Aftermath of White Dwarf and Brown Dwarf Collision
Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf star and a…
MUSE Spectrograph Reveals a Universe Aglow
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite…
Astronomers Measure Remarkable Flares from the Galactic Center
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is 100 times closer to us than any other…
Scientists Find Evidence of ‘Orphan’ Gamma-Ray Bursts
Astronomers typically study objects that are visible night after night or explode suddenly, like supernovas, but Casey Law is scouring vast amounts of data in…
Hubble and Kepler Reveal First Evidence of a Moon Outside Our Solar System
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet…
Astronomers Discover a Distant Solar System Object – 2015 TG387
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that…
Black Holes Only Contain Small Percentage of the Universe’s Dark Matter
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope that the universe’s mysterious dark…
Astronomers Identify Possible Places of Origin of ‘Oumuamua
Using data from ESA’s Gaia stellar surveyor, astronomers have identified four stars that are possible places of origin of ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object spotted during…
Astronomers Probe Four Newly Discovered Milky Way Neighbors
Ultra-faint, dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe and are important targets for understanding…
Scientists Discover Why Some Supernova Explosions Produce More Manganese and Nickel
Researchers have found white dwarf stars with masses close to the maximum stable mass (called the Chandrasekhar mass) are likely to produce large amounts of…
Astronomers Measure Precise Rotation Pattern of Sun-Like Stars
Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi reveal that sun-like stars rotate up to two and a half times faster at the equator than at higher latitudes,…
Gaia Satellite Detects a Shake in the Milky Way
A team led by researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB, UB-IEEC) and the University of Groningen has discovered,…
Revealing First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe
Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations –…