Ripped Apart: A Gigantic Black Hole Destroys a Massive Star
Astronomers uncover details of a massive star, ASASSN-14li, devoured by a black hole, challenging previous theories and hinting at new methods for cosmic exploration. Researchers…
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Astronomers uncover details of a massive star, ASASSN-14li, devoured by a black hole, challenging previous theories and hinting at new methods for cosmic exploration. Researchers…
Caltech researchers simulated solar flares, discovering that their structures resemble intertwined ropes. When these ‘ropes’ overload, they break and emit energy bursts, shedding light on…
Using TESS, scientists identified two long-period exoplanets, TOI-4600 b and c. These discoveries open new research avenues in understanding exoplanets, and the findings emphasize the…
Astronomers have identified an immense bubble, Hoʻoleilana, 820 million light years away. This structure, believed to be a remnant from the universe’s inception and larger…
Within the vast expanse of Jupiter’s moons, Europa stands out as a captivating subject for researchers due to compelling indications of essential elements like nutrients,…
The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled images that show, for the first time, starlight from two colossal galaxies with actively growing black holes, known…
For the first time, a global team of scientists has uncovered the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of a black hole, as well…
James Webb Space Telescope survey reveals fewer supermassive black holes than presumed. A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the…
Stampede2 supercomputer simulations help capture helium gas clouds escaping distant planet. A planet located approximately 950 light years from Earth could be the Looney Tunes’…
Black holes with exceptionally large masses—over a million times the mass of the Sun, known as supermassive black holes (SMBHs)—are commonly found in the universe…
The frosty gas giant was discovered in a system that also hosts a warm Jupiter. Of the over 5,000 planets known to exist beyond our…
The MIT-led Cosmic Explorer project aims to detect gravitational waves from the earliest universe. The search for space-shaking ripples in the universe just got a…
A recent study from SISSA proposes a new model of non-local interaction between the dark matter of a galaxy and gravity. Isaac Newton described his…
Images from the Solar Orbiter revealed small “picoflare” jets within a coronal hole on the Sun, which might supply energy to the solar wind, enhancing…
An international team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins…
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with their international partners, used the Five-hundred-meter Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to identify…
Magnetar Origins Explored New findings centered on observations and stellar evolution models of a hot, helium-rich Wolf-Rayet star suggest that it is set to produce…
The XRISM satellite, a collaborative effort between JAXA, NASA, and ESA, aims to offer unprecedented insights into the X-ray universe, exploring stellar phenomena and black…