Einstein’s description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Astrophysicists put general relativity to a new test with black hole imagesCredit: L. Medeiros; C. Chan; D. Psaltis; F. Özel; ...
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ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada With the help of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a ...
Stellar explosion in Earth’s proximity
Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years agoCredit: Dominik Koll / TUM When the brightness of the ...
Venus might be habitable today, if not for Jupiter
Study shows destabilizing effect of the giant gas planetCredit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Venus might not ...
Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
Credit: NAOJ A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of ...
SwRI study describes discovery of close binary trans-Neptunian object
Scientists utilized citizen science network to observe the objectCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 28, 2020 -- A ...
Scientists precisely measure total amount of matter in the universe
UC Riverside-led team's technique relied on determining the mass of galaxy clustersCredit: Mohamed Abdullah, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A ...
Astronomers find the first galaxy whose ultraviolet luminosity is comparable to that of a quasar
Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). It was found using observations made with the Gran ...
Remnants of an ancient asteroid shed new light on the early solar system
Credit: Modified after Koike et al. (2020) EPSL Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in ...
Astronomers model, determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly
Credit: Illustration by Jian Wu/Iowa State University. Galaxy image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. AMES, Iowa - Computer simulations ...
Pair of massive baby stars swaddled in salty water vapor
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tanaka et al. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby ...
Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?
Scientists analyze sunquakes to pinpoint flare energy source, perhaps predict flare severityCredit: UC Berkeley graphic by Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas Solar ...
Insight-HXMT discovers closest high-speed jet to black hole
Credit: Image by IHEP Insight-HXMT, China's first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) above 200 ...
Water trapped in star dust
Astrophysicists at the University of Jena (Germany) prove that dust particles in space are mixed with iceCredit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & ...