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,…
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…
Meet Julian Shapiro, the 18-year-old New Yorker who discovered three unusual dwarf galaxies while still in high school, became sole author of an Astrophysical Journal paper and won a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship
The galaxies, now catalogued as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, II and III, share an unusual combination of characteristics.…
Einstein Probe Discovers a Secret Phase of Neutron Star Collisions
Artist’s impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and HXMT detected…
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects
Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the…
‘Born-again’ star shows astronomers stellar evolution in real time
How a dead star burst back to life The scientists believe the star was similar to our Sun,…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
Les Neutrinos: The Ghosts of the Sun, The Great Neutrino Mystery
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, Before we speak of the stars, allow me…
NASA’s Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have…
Largest-Ever Physics Survey Raises New Doubts About Our Model of the Universe
A global survey of physicists reveals strikingly little consensus on some of the deepest questions in modern physics,…
Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes
When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed
An image of elliptical galaxy NGC4696 located at the center of the Centaurus Cluster taken by the Hubble…