The spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered…
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Astronomy
Black Holes Help With Star Birth
Research combining systematic observations with cosmological simulations has found that, surprisingly, black holes can help certain…
Results From The Calorimetric Electron Telescope On The International Space Station
The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), in operation on the International Space Station since 2015, collected a…
Astronomers Spot a Blinking Giant Near The Center Of The Galaxy
Astronomers have spotted a giant ‘blinking’ star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than…
Discovery Of A Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3,000-year-long Light Echo
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to…
CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation
To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and…
The Origin Of The First Structures Formed In Galaxies Like The Milky Way Identified
An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from…
An Atom Chip Interferometer That Could Detect Quantum Gravity
Physicists in Israel have created a quantum interferometer on an atom chip. Click…
Axions Could Be The Fossil Of The Universe Researchers Have Been Waiting For
Finding the hypothetical particle axion could mean finding out for the first time what happened in…
White Dwarf Stars’ Debris Disk Formation Delayed
White dwarfs, the glowing cores of dead stars, often host disks of dusty debris. …