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Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, travelling at a blistering 6 million km/h, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago.
Nov 12th, 2019
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Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe.
Nov 8th, 2019
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With the powerful eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed straight into the bright and hot heart of a galaxy 11 billion years old in no less than 12 multiple, gravitationally lensed images. The finding casts light onto a crucial era in our universe?s history: the epoch of reionization.
Nov 8th, 2019
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Astronomers have unveiled the results of a newly-completed, state of the art simulation of the evolution of galaxies. It allows researchers to study in detail how galaxies form, and how they have evolved since shortly after the Big Bang. For the first time, it reveals that the geometry of the cosmic gas flows around galaxies determines galaxies? structures, and vice versa.
Nov 7th, 2019
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Astronomers have studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a result they found that black holes thermalize the same way ordinary matter does.
Nov 5th, 2019
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Research offers a critical understanding of a process both in stars and in chemical systems on Earth.
Nov 1st, 2019
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Astronomers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing. The exoplanet has a mass similar to Neptune, but it orbits a star lighter (cooler) than the Sun at an orbital radius similar to Earth's orbital radius.
Nov 1st, 2019
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Researchers observe huge outflow of gas extending far beyond a galaxy for the first time.
Oct 31st, 2019
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TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is NASA's newest exoplanet mission. TESS will find thousands of new planets orbiting nearby stars. During its two year survey, TESS will watch a wide variety of stars, looking for signs of planets ranging from Earth-size to larger than Jupiter.
Oct 31st, 2019
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Team models stellar activity on Milky Way neighbors to judge impact on planets.
Oct 31st, 2019
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A giant-impacts phase in the evolution of planetary systems can explain the observations of close-in giant planets with eccentric orbits.
Oct 30th, 2019
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Globular clusters, which have been forming over the last billion years, have been found to exist around the giant galaxy at the centre of the Perseus cluster.
Oct 29th, 2019
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PRISMA+ and HIM scientists report the latest findings of the CASPEr research program.
Oct 29th, 2019
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In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face.
Oct 28th, 2019
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New findings detail a method for investigating the inner workings of stars in a rare phase.
Oct 28th, 2019
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Physicists simulate critical 'reheating' period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe's first fractions of a second.
Oct 25th, 2019
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Astronomers accidentally discovered a monstrous galaxy from the dawn of the universe; hidden in dust, the 'cosmic Yeti' may be the missing link to a population of galaxies waiting to be discovered.
Oct 22nd, 2019
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Scientists study how charged particles arrange themselves into crystalline patterns and apply what they learn to explore the interiors of white dwarf stars.
Oct 21st, 2019
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