This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce…
Posts published in “Astrophysics”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Beyond Neptune, there is a large disc of small objects, called the Kuiper Belt and beyond that is the Oort cloud, home of the comets.…
This is an artist representation of the hypernova. The interaction of the jet with the outer layers of the star forms a cocoon that surrounds…
Illustration of Gamma-ray burst models. Left: Merger of two neutron stars (or a black hole and a neutron star) to produce gravitational waves; Right: Gamma-ray…
View of the double star system and surrounding disc. Copyright and credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick New research that included astronomers Luca Matra and David…
Star formation in tiny dwarf galaxies can slowly “heat up” the dark matter, pushing it outwards. The left image shows the hydrogen gas density of…
Hubble Space Telescope image representing a merger between two galaxies (M51a and M51b) similar in mass to the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud.…
This pulsar, named SXP 1062, lies in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies of our Milky Way galaxy. It…
Space is moving: This numerical-relativistic simulation reflects the first observed fusion of two black holes measured by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015.…
Artist depiction of loop quantum gravity effects in a black hole. The bottom half of the image depicts the black hole which, according to general…
Artists impression of the disc of dust and gas surrounding the massive protostar MM 1a, with its companion MM 1b forming in the outer regions.…
This illustration shows the position of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that…
Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A…
COSINE-100 is a NaI(Tl) direct detection dark matter experiment, a collaboration between the DM-Ice and KIMS experiments. The first phase of the experiment deployed 106…