A simulated galaxy image from the FIRE-2 project, representing a structure spanning more than 200,000 light years, shows the prominent plumes of young blue stars…
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Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf and its magnetic field. The magnetic field, rooted deep in its interior, rotates at a different rate than the…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal the eccentricity of binary black holes: the shape of the…
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center…
Kamioka Observatory. Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major international experiment in…
Artistic representation of a nova eruption: During a nova eruption a white dwarf sucks matter from its companion star and stores this mass on its…
An artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua formation based on ZHANG and Lin’s cenario. Credit: YU Jingchuan from Beijing Planetarium What is the origin of the famous…
V906 Carinae’s 2018 nova eruption illustration. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio…
This is an artist’s impression of a supernova. Credit: Aaron Geller (Northwestern University) A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much…
This illustration shows the tidal disruption process that can give rise to ‘Oumuamua-like objects. Credit: NAOC/Y. Zhang A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts…
This illustration shows how some of the light coming from a disk around a black hole is bent back onto the disk itself due to…
Identity of particles entails their entanglement, which can also be observed in pure form without interaction. Credit: The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish…
This is an artist’s impression of the newly discovered object. Credit: Ko Arimatsu For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius…
A physicist has developed a formula for calculating Hawking radiation in the vicinity of an Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet black hole. Credit: RUDN University A RUDN University physicist…
Illustration depicting the method outline by LLE researchers to shape intense laser light in a way that accelerates electrons to record energies in very short…
This artist’s concept depicts a cosmic homicide in action. A wayward star is being shredded by the intense gravitational pull of a black hole that…
Shining New Light on Dark Matter: Kathryn Zurek talks about the ongoing search for an invisible substance that permeates the galaxy. About 80 percent of…
WFIRST will make its microlensing observations in the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The higher density of stars will yield more…
This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin, rotating disc of…
Artist impression of a double-star system. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve…