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Discovery Of A Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3,000-year-long Light Echo

Mars Imaged by Hubble

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses. Some SMBHs are in a bright phase called active galactic nuclei (AGN).

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CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation

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To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and when you point your radio dish. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are oddly bright flashes of light, registering in the radio band of the electromagnetic spectrum, that blaze for a few milliseconds before vanishing without a trace.

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 the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to study a representative sample of galaxies, both disc and spheroidal, in a deep sky zone in the constellation of the Great Bear to characterize the properties of the stellar populations of galactic bulges.

An Atom Chip Interferometer That Could Detect Quantum Gravity

Physicists in Israel have created a quantum interferometer on an atom chip.

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 the Universe a second after the Big Bang, suggests a new study published in Physical Review D on June 7.

White Dwarf Stars' Debris Disk Formation Delayed

White dwarfs, the glowing cores of dead stars, often host disks of dusty debris.

Scientists Find New Insights Into The Elusive Continuous Waves From Spinning Neutron Stars

Five years on from the first discovery of gravitational waves, an international team of scientists, including from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), are continuing the hunt for new discoveries and insights into the Universe.

$Turbulence In Interstellar Gas Clouds Reveals Multi-fractal Structures$

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 of the Milky Way galaxy. A new image of this new cosmic masterpiece was made using a giant mosaic of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.

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 extreme degree due to their extraordinary concentration of mass, and heat up the matter in their vicinity so that it begins to glow.

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 expanding radically - a process that scientists have named 'The Big Bang'.

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, an unexpected discovery that challenges current theories on how galaxies grow and may enhance our understanding of the universe.

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 to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.

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 spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang.

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 has just developed a method to identify the contributors and origins of stray light on space telescopes.

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 Telescope (ESO's VLT) has shown that iron and nickel exist in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System, even those far from the Sun.

LHAASO Discovers A Dozen PeVatrons And Photons Exceeding 1 PeV And Launches Ultra-high-energy Gamma

China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO)--one of the country's key national science and technology infrastructure facilities--has found a dozen ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic accelerators within the Milky Way.

Hubble Spots a Cosmic Cloud's Silver Lining

The bright star V565 (center of the image) highlights a silvery, fan-shaped veil of gas and dust, while the right half of this image is obscured by a dense cloud of dust.

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Discovery Of A Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3,000-year-long Light Echo View

CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation View

The Origin Of The First Structures Formed In Galaxies Like The Milky Way Identified View

An Atom Chip Interferometer That Could Detect Quantum Gravity View

Axions Could Be The Fossil Of The Universe Researchers Have Been Waiting For View

White Dwarf Stars' Debris Disk Formation Delayed View

Scientists Find New Insights Into The Elusive Continuous Waves From Spinning Neutron Stars View

Turbulence In Interstellar Gas Clouds Reveals Multi-fractal Structures View

Magnetized Threads Weave Spectacular Galactic Tapestry View

Not All Theories Can Explain The Black Hole M87* View

New Details On What Happened In The First Microsecond Of The Big Bang View

36 Dwarf Galaxies Had Simultaneous 'Baby Boom' Of New Stars View

Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies' Spiral Arms View

ALMA Discovers The Most Ancient Galaxy With Spiral Morphology View

A Revolutionary Method To Drastically Reduce Stray Light On Space Telescopes View

Nickel Atoms Detected In The Cold Gas Around Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov View

LHAASO Discovers A Dozen PeVatrons And Photons Exceeding 1 PeV And Launches Ultra-high-energy Gamma View

Hubble Spots a Cosmic Cloud's Silver Lining View

3 Sky Surveys Completed in Preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

The Ghost of Cassiopeia

Hubble View Of The Lagoon Nebula

Hubble Spots Expanding Light Echo Around Supernova

ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Proxima Centauri

Finding GW170817 In The Sky

Hubble Observes Source of Gravitational Waves for the First Time

Supernova Simulations Reveal Mysteries of Dying Stars

New Study Maps Space Dust in 3-D