Black hole shreds star, UH astronomer on discovery team
Credit: Illustration by Robin Dienel courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the ...
Tag: Astronomy
Found: ‘Poster child’ for being shredded by a black hole
Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand these mysterious phenomenaCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel, courtesy ...
Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, astronomers analysed the signal from a fast radio burst to ...
NASA visualization shows a black hole’s warped world
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our ...
New model proposes jets go superluminal in gamma-ray bursts
Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab (used with permission by Astronomy Picture of the Day, which is co-managed by Robert Nemiroff ...
Naming of new interstellar visitor: 2I/Borisov
Second interstellar object has been spotted and named just two years after the firstCredit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA On 30 August 2019 ...
Eyeballing a black hole’s mass
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics ...
Nova Southeastern University Researcher urges use of microbes for space colonization
Any permanent human space settlement will require beneficial microbesCredit: Nova Southeastern University FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. - With the recent celebration ...
UMD-led study captures six galaxies undergoing sudden, dramatic transitions
Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within monthsCredit: (Left; infrared & visible ...
Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe
Credit: ETH Zurich Understanding the how our universe came to be what it is today and what will be its ...
From primordial black holes new clues to dark matter
Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the ...
WVU astronomers help detect the most massive neutron star ever measured
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough ...
The stellar nurseries of distant galaxies
An international team headed by UNIGE has discovered that the properties of molecular clouds, and the number of stars they ...
VISTA unveils a new image of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: ESO/VMC Survey The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is one of our nearest galactic neighbors, at only 163 000 ...
Gemini observatory captures multicolor image of first-ever interstellar comet
Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in ...
New space discovery sheds light on how planets form
A young planet and a bright star offer glimpses into the past and futureCredit: Elisabeth Newton HANOVER, N.H. - July ...
Found: Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies
Credit: Caltech/IPAC Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science ...
A peek at the birth of the universe
University researchers publish study on new telescopeCredit: Photo: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is ...
Astronomers map vast void in our cosmic neighborhood
Credit: UH An astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and an international team published a new study ...
Astronomers make first calculations of magnetic activity in ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanets
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many ...
