What’s inside a Black Hole?
What’s inside a black hole is anyone’s guess, and science is still struggling to provide us with any answers. Which…
Astrophysics
Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a…
A dust-bound supermassive black hole [artist’s impression]
This artist’s impression shows the dust torus around a super-massive black hole. Black holes lurk at the centers of active…
What Is “Redshift?”
‘Redshift’ is a key concept for astronomers. The term can be understood literally — the wavelength of the light is…
Astonishing Image Captures The Epic Collision of Three Galaxies
An object 681 million light-years away might look like one glorious, exquisite mess, but there’s a lot more going on…
Astronomers discover a new type of star covered in helium burning ashes
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new…
What is a Primordial Black Holes?
Primordial black holes are a hypothetical type of black hole that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the early…
Dark matter travelling through stars could produce potentially detectable shock waves
Dark matter, a hypothetical material that does not absorb, emit or reflect light, is thought to account for over 80…
What is a scattered disc
Scattered disc is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small solar system…
A New Trojan Asteroid Has Been Discovered Sharing Earth’s Orbit
Earth has officially been joined in its orbit around the Sun by a new trojan asteroid. Named 2020 XL5, this…