Five years on from the first discovery of gravitational waves, an international team of scientists, including…
Category: Astronomy
Astronomy
Turbulence In Interstellar Gas Clouds Reveals Multi-fractal Structures
In interstellar dust clouds, turbulence must first dissipate before a star can form through gravity. …
Magnetized Threads Weave Spectacular Galactic Tapestry
Threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields are weaving a tapestry of energy at the center…
Not All Theories Can Explain The Black Hole M87*
As first pointed out by the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild, black holes bend space-time to an…
New Details On What Happened In The First Microsecond Of The Big Bang
About 14 billion years ago, our universe changed from being a lot hotter and denser to…
36 Dwarf Galaxies Had Simultaneous ‘Baby Boom’ Of New Stars
Three dozen dwarf galaxies far from each other had a simultaneous “baby boom” of new stars,…
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts…
ALMA Discovers The Most Ancient Galaxy With Spiral Morphology
Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a…
A Revolutionary Method To Drastically Reduce Stray Light On Space Telescopes
A team of researchers at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) of the University of Liège…
Nickel Atoms Detected In The Cold Gas Around Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large…