Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near…
Hubble Captures a Tarantula – NASA Science
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called…
Webb Captures Historic New Version of Hubble’s Legendary Deep Field Image
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly…
NASA’s Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of…
How Supernovae Create the Universe’s Ultimate Particle Accelerators » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock When massive stars reach the end of their life cycles, they often explode in dramatic cosmic events…
NASA SVS | XRISM Satellite X-rays Milky Way’s Sulfur in Detail
An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using…
NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse
A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very…
Neptune Dances in Sync With a Rare Distant Object, Astronomers Find
For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described…