On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black…
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Astronomy
The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the entire M87 galaxy in infrared light. The…
The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the entire M87 galaxy in infrared light. The…
Researchers detect evidence of six new binary black hole mergers within LVC data
Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of…
New ultra metal-poor star discovered
An international team of astronomers has detected a new ultra metal-poor star with the lowest ever…
New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expected
New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster…
Astronomers find quasars are not nailed to the sky
Until recently, quasars were thought to have essentially fixed positions in the sky. While near-Earth objects…
Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young stars
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about…
X-ray observations reveal insights into the nature of the pulsar wind nebula 3C 58
Analysis of the new data from X-ray observations using NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft and archival data from…
CLASP-2: Investigating the magnetic solar chromosphere
Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space…