NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. The multiple-image effect seen…
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A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable…
Artist’s rendering shows G objects, with the reddish centers, orbiting the supermassive black hole. The black hole is represented as a dark sphere inside a…
Dust-rich outflows of evolved stars similar to the pictured Egg Nebula are plausible sources of the large presolar silicon carbide grains found in meteorites like…
The Protoplanetary Disk of HL Tauri from ALMA. A so-called “ALMA disk” as seen in infrared light around distant stars. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NSF Scientists,…
Artist’s impression of gamma-ray burst with orbiting binary star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts,…
Two galaxies in the process of merging. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble When two galaxies merge, there are brief periods of stellar baby booms. A group of astronomers…
This rendition shows ionized bubbles formed by three galaxies in galaxy cluster EGS77. Credit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA Astronomers using…
Image of the host galaxy of FRB 180916 (center) acquired with the 8-meter Gemini-North telescope of NSF’s OIR Lab on Hawaii’s Maunakea. Images acquired in…
Gravitational Waves Surge Through the Fabric of Space and Time After Neutron Stars Violently Collide
Gravitational Waves Surge Through the Fabric of Space and Time After Neutron Stars Violently Collide
Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up…
When David Poses As Goliath Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black…
Various heavy metals with unique wavelength signatures are produced in an explosion following a merger of binary neutron stars. These metals are then incorporated into…
LSU astronomy researchers estimate the peak of brightness and explosion of luminous star brighter than any other in the Milky Way Galaxy. Currently, the faint…
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar’s light is altered by a massive foreground galaxy and by tiny dark matter clumps along the light path.…
Visualization of the Radcliffe Wave: a massive, wave-shaped gaseous structure made up of stellar nurseries, forming one of the largest coherent structures ever observed in…
An artist’s conception of the localization of Fast Radio Burst 180916.J0158+65 to its host galaxy. The host galaxy image is based on real observations using…
Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An…
This Hubble Space Telescope photograph showcases the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 2885, located 232 million light-years away in the northern constellation Perseus. The galaxy is…
This new multiwavelength image of the Crab Nebula combines X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) with visible light from the Hubble Space…
Artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its…