Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: Courtesy Frederico Fiuza/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding ...

Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars -- ...

Credit: Solar Wind Sherpas Researchers at the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying ...

New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early ...

Credit: Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbours the Magellanic Clouds, ...

Credit: Images by Dhanesh Krishnarao and NASA MADISON -Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time ...

According to new research, black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional ...

Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of ...

First-of-its-kind telescope promises to shed new light on the physics of high-energy phenomena, from supernovae to dark matterCredit: Photo: Amy ...

Credit: Pete Wheeler/ICRAR The Sun is the brightest object in the sky and has been studied for hundreds of years, ...

Credit: Sunmyon Chon Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the ...

Credit: David A. Hardy A team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University (ASU), has combined ...

Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC - IT Center for Science A Finnish research group has found strong evidence for the presence ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which will map millions of galaxies in 3D, reaches final milestone toward its startupCredit: Courtesy ...

Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory A few minutes into the life of the universe, colliding emissions of light energy created ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, INAF-Padua/S. Zaggia Astronomers using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of ...

Andrew Fabian recognised for his pioneering research into the role of black holes in the "ecosystem" of galaxiesCredit: Sam Fabian ...

Credit: ICRAR Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of 'missing matter', long predicted to ...

'A new beast is out there,' researcher says of object found in tiny galaxyCredit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF EVANSTON, Ill. -- ...