Scientists find evidence of a solar storm near a supermassive black hole
An X-ray flare near NGC 3783’s supermassive black hole showed a timing pattern familiar from solar eruptions.XRISM and…
A self-shadowing black hole accretion disk at sub-Eddington luminosities
Matsuoka, M. et al. The MAXI mission on the ISS: science and instruments for monitoring all-sky X-ray images.…
The ‘Exotic Physics’ Behind a Mysterious 1,000-Mile Cloud on Mars
Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear…
Astronomers Matched van Gogh’s Starry Night to a Real Sky—and a Weirdly Specific Date
For a surprisingly long time, scientists have debated whether Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night was his fantasy,…
Dennis Mammana: Watch the Moon Dance Across the Night Sky Toward a Close Encounter with Saturn | Outdoors
The moon shines brightly in our night sky this week. Stargazers have been known to curse those nights…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope prepares to unleash a flood of new cosmic discoveries
Roman is designed to return about 1.4 terabytes of data daily, with observations becoming publicly available after processing.A…
Top Comments: Conditions That Produce Jets from Black Holes Are Independent of Black Hole Mass
Uploaded to DailyKos by Ed Tracey Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up…
Leap seconds have helped us, but their time may be over
You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap…
World’s timekeepers to vote on ditching leap second
On 27 days in the past century, time has gone backwards for a second. Or, at least, our…
Astronomers Discover a “Universal” Trigger for Black Hole Jets
Artist’s impression of a black hole surrounded by glowing stellar debris, with material heating up as it spirals…
Scientists calculate how much information exists in the observable universe
A theoretical calculation estimates roughly 6 × 10⁸⁰ bits of information in selected ordinary-matter particles across the observable…
Five-dimensional black holes offer a possible explanation for dark matter and neutrinos
A theoretical study predicts five-dimensional primordial black holes within a model containing a hidden extra spatial dimension.Some modeled…