Decades of hunting detects footprint of cosmic ray superaccelerators in our galaxy
Record-breaking gamma rays bathe the Milky Way in an energetic hazeCredit: HEASARC / LAMBDA / NASA / GFSC An enormous ...
Tag: Astrophysics
First X-rays from Uranus discovered
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the ...
First interstellar comet may be the most pristine ever found
Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet ...
New study finds satellites contribute significant light pollution to night skies
Credit: Andreas Möller Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening ...
Stellar eggs near galactic center hatching into baby stars
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lu et al. Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of ...
String theory solves mystery about how particles behave outside a black hole photon sphere
Credit: EHT Collaboration; Kavli IPMU (Kavli IPMU modified EHT's original image)) A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics ...
Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
Credit: M. Claro/ESO. Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength ...
The very first structures in the Universe
Astrophysicists at the Universities of Göttingen and Auckland simulate microscopic clusters from the Big BangCredit: Jens Niemeyer, University of Göttingen ...
New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
Credit: Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo (IAC). Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material ...
Harvard, Smithsonian astronomers help capture first image of black hole’s magnetic fields
This is the first time scientists have imaged magnetic fields so close to a black holeCredit: EHT Collaboration Cambridge, MA ...
Black hole shows magnetic fields surrounding it are strong enough to resist gravity
Wits University astrophysicists are the only two scientists on African continent that contributed to the study.Credit: Credit: © EHT Collaboration ...
World’s most sensitive radio telescope concludes 15-month listening session, accepting international proposals
Credit: Image by NAO Nestled in the mountainous landscape of Guizhou in southwest China, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope ...
Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole
Credit: EHT Collaboration The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has ...
Curtin research finds first clues to start of Earth’s supercontinent cycle
Curtin University research has uncovered the first solid clues about the very beginning of the supercontinent cycle of Earth, finding ...
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