In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the…
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Astronomy
Gravitational Wave Search Finds Tantalizing New Clue
Pairs of black holes billions of times more massive than the Sun may be circling one…
Roman Space Telescope Could Image 100 Hubble Ultra Deep Fields at Once
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which…
NASA Selects 4 Concepts for Small Missions to Study Universe’s Secrets
NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called…
Hubble Showcases Six Beautiful Galaxy Mergers
It is during rare merging events that galaxies undergo dramatic changes in their appearance and in…
X-ray Exposure of Sagittarius A*
This 2003 Chandra image of the supermassive black hole at our Galaxy’s center, a.k.a. Sagittarius A*…
X-rays Reveal Nature of Spiral Galaxy’s Boisterous Activity
Chandra’s 2003 image of M83 shows numerous point-like neutron star and black hole X-ray sources scattered…
Scientists Complete Year Long Pulsar Timing Study After Reviving Dormant Radio Telescopes
While the scientific community grapples with the loss of the Arecibo radio telescope, astronomers who recently…
Awakening Newborn Stars
Lying inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this Herbig-Haro object is a turbulent birthing ground…
Primordial Black Holes And The Search For Dark Matter From The Multiverse
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to…