New Class Of Strange Objects Discovered Orbiting The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole that weighs more than 4.6 million times as much as our Sun, is located…
Astrophysics
A star being squeezed like a toothpaste tube by a supermassive black hole generated a mysteriously brilliant flash that emitted more light than 1,000 TRILLION suns
According to research, a mysteriously brilliant light in the sky was created by a supermassive black hole “squeezing like a…
Four Ways You Can Observe the Multiverse
multiverse theory The data neither confirm nor rule out the multiverse theory , which may be helping the proposal to…
A Giant Cloud of Alcohol Floating in Space
There is a huge cloud of alcohol 10,000 light-years away in a distant constellation. It’s space booze. The cloud, which…
Is the Thorne Zytkow object real?
Thorne-Żytkow objects are a hypothetical category of stars first proposed in 1977 by astrophysicists Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow. These…
DETERMINE THE AGE OF A SUPERNOVA REMNANT
SNR 0519 is the remnant of a white dwarf that blew up after exceeding its critical mass limit. There are…
Is dark matter real? Astronomy’s multi-decade mystery
Modern astronomy is in a bit of turmoil. Astronomers understand how stars form, burn, and die, and they are improving…
THE DOUBLE QUASAR, THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL LENS TO BE OBSERVED
Looking at this stellar field there doesn’t seem to be anything special, some stars of the Milky Way in the…
Far-infrared detector KID reaches highest possible sensitivity
Astronomy has a blind spot in the area of far-infrared radiation compared to most other wavelengths. A far-infrared space telescope…
Collision between supermassive black holes could occur in 3 years
A galaxy about a billion light-years away could harbor a binary system of supermassive black holes at its core —…