Black hole devoured a star decades ago and it was only discovered now
Traces of a black hole ‘s “meal” were identified in a dataset from the 1980s, thanks to two high school…
Astronomy
Clouds around our local supermassive black hole
This image taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the region surrounding Sagittarius A* , the supermassive black…
A globular cluster lost in the immensity of space
It is known as the Intergalactic Wanderer and it is not difficult to understand why: the globular cluster photographed in…
A celestial owl suspended in the darkness of space
Positioned in the Ursa Major constellation, approximately 2000 light years away from our home planet, lies the cosmic marvel –…
Astonishing illustration shows super-Earth GJ 1214b
The super earth has an atmosphere that created in it a swollen sphere that precedes the body of the planet…
A connection between life on Earth and supernovae, mediated by the effect of cosmic rays on clouds and weather
In a new research paper published in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters by lead researcher Dr Henrik Svensmark of…
Strange Radio Waves Detected from The Galactic Center
What arises out of nowhere in the sky, emits random radio signals, and then vanishes for months? Astronomers have been…
One of the largest hydrogen filaments ever seen in the Milky Way is discovered
The Milky Way has a large filament of gaseous atomic hydrogen. The structure, nicknamed “Maggie”, is about 55,000 light-years from…
A ghostly jellyfish, raised from the dead
Galaxy clusters are the largest known structures in the universe held together by gravity. In addition to harboring thousands of…
Coldest known place in the Universe resembles ghost shape
Boomerang Nebula is 5,000 light-years from Earth. Its temperature is -272ºC, just above absolute zero. Astronomers at the Alma Observatory…