At the European nuclear and particle physics laboratory CERN, physicists can produce extremely rare short-lived atoms and molecules. Researchers from KU Leuven have shown that…
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Artist’s impression of a radio magnetar. Credit: CSIRO On March 12th, 2020, a space telescope called Swift, detected a burst of radiation from half-way across…
NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Galaxy NGC 1068 with its active black hole shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset. A new model…
Exploded star blooms like a cosmic flower. Credit: NASA/CXC/U.Texas A recent study on ‘pre-supernova’ neutrinos—tiny cosmic particles that are extremely hard to detect—has brought scientists…
Artistic view of the strongly interacting exoplanetary system WASP-148. The planet WASP-148c is shown in front. On the back, one can see the planet WASP-148b…
Artist impression of the atmosphere of Antares. As seen with the naked eye (up until the photosphere), Antares is around 700 times larger than our…
Image of star cluster G286.21+0.17, caught in the act of formation. This is a multiwavelength mosaic of more than 750 ALMA radio images, and 9…
Scientific Red Flag Spotted Milky Way’s Dark, Dusty Center – Oddity Moving in the Direction of Earth
Scientific Red Flag Spotted Milky Way’s Dark, Dusty Center – Oddity Moving in the Direction of Earth
Scientific ‘Red Flag’ Reveals New Clues About Our Galaxy Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported…
MIT physicists have observed that LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects. In this photo, a LIGO optics technician inspects one…
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a radio telescope located in southwest China. It consists of a fixed 500 m (1,600 ft) diameter…
Artist’s impression showing a Neptune-sized planet in the Neptunian Desert. It is extremely rare to find an object of this size and density so close…
This illustration depicts a quasar surrounded by a dusty donut shape (torus) and clumps called “clouds.” Credit: Illustration by Nima Abkenar We now know just…
Artist’s impression of black hole collision. Credit: Alex Andrix. NB: The streams and lensing around the compact objects are an artistic impression. A black hole…
On a quest to find the Universe’s largest black holes, Vanderbilt researcher identifies the center of the solar system within 100 meters. Credit: Tonia Klein/NANOGrav…
This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could have looked like before its mysterious disappearance. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada…
Artist’s impression of the multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths orbiting nearby red dwarf Gliese 887. Credit: Mark Garlick An international team of researchers has…
The new observations show that the stellar equator (right) is aligned with the orbital plane of the planet Beta Pictoris b (middle) and the plane…
This artist’s concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. The composition of such water worlds…
Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence For decades astronomers have been…
New research findings from the IAS, University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley. In a new study of axion motion, researchers propose a scenario known as…