“Black Hole Police” Discover Needle in a Haystack: A Dormant Black Hole Outside Our Galaxy
A stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own, has been found by a team of international experts, renowned for…
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Riskiest Asteroid Known to Humankind in the Last Year Will Not Strike Earth for at Least 100 Years
Impact in 2052 ruled out as the European Space Agency (ESA) counts down to Asteroid Day Just in time for worldwide Asteroid Day: a threatening…
Stunning Reveal: First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of…
Meet Sagittarius A* – Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Today (May 12, 2022), at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the…
Groundbreaking Milky Way Results From the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration – Watch Live
Update: Stunning Reveal: First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy Today (May 12, 2022) at 9:00 a.m. EDT…
Astronomers Discover Micronovae: A New Kind of Thermonuclear Stellar Explosion
A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), have observed a new type of stellar explosion…
Surprising Changes in Neptune’s Temperatures Detected by Astronomers
Using ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), an international team of astronomers track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year…
Key Discovery in Search for Origin of Life – Astronomers Detect Largest Molecule Yet in a Cosmic “Dust-Trap”
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in…
“Closest Black Hole” System Doesn’t Contain a Black Hole – “Stellar Vampirism”
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just 1000 light-years away in the…
Supermassive Black Hole Caught Hiding in an Immense Ring of Cosmic Dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center of the galaxy Messier 77…
New Planet Discovered Next Door – Orbiting Proxima Centauri
In August of 2016, astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting in neighboring Proxima Centauri. Based on…
New Planet Detected Nearby – Orbiting Around Star Closest to the Sun
A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri,…
Orion’s Fireplace: Incredible New Image of the Flame Nebula
Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern Observatory…
Mysterious Galactic Nomads: At Least 70 Rogue Planets Uncovered in Our Milky Way
Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star,…
Watch Stars Race Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole at Mind-Boggling Speeds
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive…
Surprise Planet Discovered Around Extreme Star Pair
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system that can be…
Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course: Closest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes to Earth Ever Discovered
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The…
Black Hole Discovered Lurking in Star Cluster Outside Our Galaxy
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how…
