Astronomers discover red dwarfs absorbing matter from Earth-like planets
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a red dwarf and a planet. Astronomers have recently discovered red…
Webb Spots Supermassive Black Hole Older Than Its Home Galaxy
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found an enormous black hole in the early Universe…
Is Dark Energy Unnecessary? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmological Model of Universe
Mathematicians from University College London and the University of California, Davis, have published a mathematical proof that the…
Scientists find the Universe has multiple ways of manufacturing black holes
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has released an updated catalogue of gravitational-wave detections, adding hundreds of observations of collisions…
ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
Did Chinese scientists simulate what could be the ‘end of the universe’?
If a certain tiny bubble suddenly appeared somewhere in the cosmos, physicists say, it could expand and erase…
Astronomers Catch Interstellar Turbulence Warping Light across Milky Way
For the first time, astronomers have directly detected how turbulent clouds of ionized gas between the stars bend…
With a mass of about 50 billion times that of the Sun, this black hole is one of the largest ever discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a black hole in the universe. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
With a power of 10,000 suns, jets emitted by a black hole were measured for the first time
The universe contains many mysterious and powerful objects. This is the case for black holes, which are celestial…
A massive test of gravity just confirmed Einstein’s and Newton’s theory
Gravity is frequently pictured as the invisible hand that pulls an apple to the ground. But to astronomers,…
Scientists discover hidden ‘knots’ in the fabric of spacetime
Spacetime, the invisible fabric stitching the universe together, could actually be far more complex than previously believed. Long…