Distinguishing Black Holes from Naked Singularities
A new theoretical paper from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics finds there is a way in principle to make a black hole with…
A new theoretical paper from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics finds there is a way in principle to make a black hole with…
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected chemical change in the transition zone between the infalling envelope and the gas disk around young protostar L1527. The international…
By combining data from the Planck and Herschel satellites, astronomers have discovered four galaxy clusters some 10 billion light-years from Earth. An international team of…
A new video from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope shows a 360-degree view of Saturn’s auroras. NASA trained several pairs of eyes on…
Astronomers from the universities of Nottingham and Manchester have accurately measured the mass of neutrinos for the first time. Scientists have solved a major problem…
A newly published study from Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that ballistic transport in graphene nanoribbons could result in a new class of coherent electronic…
Kepler data has led to the discovery of Kepler 413-b, a planet that wobbles wildly on its spin axis and in its orbit around an…
New research shows that the asteroid belt is a melting pot of objects arriving from diverse locations and backgrounds, revealing that as the planets migrated…
A newly published study states that searching for life on Earth-like planets may be a mistake and details why scientists need to consider non-Earth-like “superhabitable”…
An international group of physicists has created, identified, and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles, paving the way for the detection of the particles in nature. Amherst,…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to study active supermassive black holes in merging galaxies, revealing that local physical conditions near SMBHs rather than general properties…
Researchers from Brown University have produced the first experimental evidence that a one-atom-thick “borophene” structure is possible. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) — Researchers from…
Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope shows before and after images of supernova SN 2014J, which occurred 12 million light-years away in galaxy M82. An exceptionally close stellar…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, researchers have definitively detected water vapor on the dwarf planet Ceres, marking the first time water vapor has been unequivocally…
A newly published study describes the how the ASACUSA experiment at CERN produced a beam of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. The ASACUSA experiment…
Using the Keck I Telescope, a team of astronomers viewed part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Astronomers…
This newly released Hubble image shows double quasar QSO 0957+561, also known as the “Twin Quasar,” which is located about 14 billion light-years from Earth….
A newly published study details the discovery of the first binary system consisting of a black hole and a Be-type star. Spanish scientists have discovered…