Tag: Astrophysics

Astrophysicists put general relativity to a new test with black hole imagesCredit: L. Medeiros; C. Chan; D. Psaltis; F. Özel; ...

Credit: Sampson Wilcox from MIT A joint international research team from POSTECH of South Korea, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Harvard University, ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada With the help of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a ...

Credit: Andre Recnik/CHIME Though it makes up roughly 70 percent of the universe, dark energy is one of the greatest ...

Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years agoCredit: Dominik Koll / TUM When the brightness of the ...

Study shows destabilizing effect of the giant gas planetCredit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Venus might not ...

Credit: NAOJ A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of ...

Scientists utilized citizen science network to observe the objectCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 28, 2020 -- A ...

UC Riverside-led team's technique relied on determining the mass of galaxy clustersCredit: Mohamed Abdullah, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A ...

Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). It was found using observations made with the Gran ...

Credit: LSU Gravitational wave detectors have opened a new window to the universe by measuring the ripples in spacetime produced ...

Credit: Modified after Koike et al. (2020) EPSL Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in ...

Credit: Illustration by Jian Wu/Iowa State University. Galaxy image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. AMES, Iowa - Computer simulations ...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tanaka et al. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby ...

Findings have implications for understanding our place in the universeCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute/Matthew Burgos Worcester, Mass. - Sept. 23, 2020 ...

Between relativistic and classical wave regimes, newly discovered memory effect alters the Doppler wave signatureCredit: Kozlov et al. Wave scattering ...

Scientists analyze sunquakes to pinpoint flare energy source, perhaps predict flare severityCredit: UC Berkeley graphic by Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas Solar ...

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 ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Jena (Germany) prove that dust particles in space are mixed with iceCredit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & ...

Spacecraft DAPPER will study "dark ages" of the universe in radio wavesCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello The National Radio Astronomy Observatory ...