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A Star Was Kicked Out of a Globular Cluster by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Astronomers have solid evidence for the existence of stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes. However,…
Astronomers Have Found a Star with a Hot Jupiter and a Cold Super Jupiter in Orbit
Located in the constellation Ursa Major, roughly 300 light-years from Earth, is the Sun-like star HD…
Future Gravitational Wave Observatories Could See the Earliest Black Hole Mergers in the Universe
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever…
There are Plenty of Uses for Powerful Lasers in Space. But Where Should We Put Them?
Is it time for space lasers yet? Almost. As time passes, ideas that were once confined…
Could You Find What A Lunar Crater Is Made Of By Shooting It?
Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a…
There Could be a Way to Fix Spacecraft at L2, Like Webb and Gaia
Billions of dollars of observatory spacecraft orbit around Earth or in the same orbit as our…
Asteroid 2024 RC42 flew past Earth at just 0.06 LD
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Could We Find Primordial Black Holes in the Solar System?
Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the Universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from…
Earth Might Have Had Rings Half a Billion Years Ago
Saturn is well known for its ring system and many recognise that the planets Jupiter, Uranus…