Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the…
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Astronomy
Two Supermassive Black Holes Are On A Collision Course
Each black hole’s mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the…
Black Hole Brings Down Curtain On Jellyfish Galaxy’s Star Turn
The supermassive black hole at the centre of jellyfish galaxy JO201 is stripping away gas and…
ALMA Finds The Earliest Example Of Merging Galaxies
Researchers using the radio telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and…
3 Sky Surveys Completed in Preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
It took three sky surveys — conducted at telescopes in two continents, covering one-third of the…
New Method May Resolve Difficulty in Measuring Universe’s Expansion
Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a combination of gravitational-wave and…
Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a…
Hubble Watches Stars in Bloom
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses…
Hubble Sets Sights on an Explosive Galaxy
When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, they light up the cosmos…
X-rays Spot Spinning Black Holes Across Cosmic Sea
Like whirlpools in the ocean, spinning black holes in space create a swirling torrent around them.…