Mysterious dashes revealed in Milky Way's center
Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole.
Jun 2nd, 2023
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Quest for alien signals in the heart of the Milky Way takes off
If an alien civilization wanted to communicate with other civilizations throughout the Milky Way, the galaxy's core holds potential as a strategic site for a beacon.
May 30th, 2023
Read moreWebb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn's moon Enceladus
Not only is this the first time such a water emission has been seen over such an expansive distance, but Webb is also giving scientists a direct look, for the first time, at how this emission feeds the water supply for the entire system of Saturn and its rings.
May 30th, 2023
Read moreA telescope's last view
Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark.
May 30th, 2023
Read more'Light shining through a wall' experiment ALPS starts searching for dark matter
The world's most sensitive model-independent experiment to search for particularly light particles, of which dark matter might be composed, starts today in the form of the 'light shining through a wall' experiment ALPS II.
May 23rd, 2023
Read moreAn X-ray look at the heart of powerful quasars
Researchers have observed the X-ray emission of the most luminous quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history, known as SMSS J114447.77-430859.3, or J1144 for short. The new perspective sheds light on the inner workings of quasars and how they interact with their environment.
May 19th, 2023
Read moreRings of Quaoar
Astronomers discover a second 'impossible' ring around the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar
May 19th, 2023
Read moreFirst observed radio waves from a type Ia supernova
For the first time, astronomers have observed radio waves emitted by a Type Ia supernova, a type of explosion originating from a white dwarf star. This provides important clues to understand how white dwarfs explode.
May 18th, 2023
Read moreMassive neutron star has a strange heart
New research reveals the probable existence of a strange quark matter core in massive neutron stars. The study sheds new light on the equation of state of dense matter, bridging the gap between hadronic and quark matter states.
May 18th, 2023
Read moreAstronomers found a likely volcano-covered terrestrial world outside the Solar System
Astronomersl have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet around a nearby small red dwarf star that appears to be carpeted with volcanoes.
May 17th, 2023
Read moreTemperature of solar flares helps understand nature of solar plasma
A new study simulated dozens of solar flares and showed that analysis of the Lyman Continuum spectrum formed by hydrogen ionization and recombination can be used for diagnosis of the solar plasma.
May 16th, 2023
Read moreAstronomers observe the first radiation belt seen outside of our solar system
High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf show a double-lobed structure like the radiation belts of Jupiter.
May 15th, 2023
Read moreWebb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main belt comet
Using Webb's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas - specifically water vapor - around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, indicating that water ice from the primordial solar system can be preserved in that region.
May 15th, 2023
Read moreAstronomers discover twisted fields around mysterious fast radio burst
Learn about FRB 20190520B, the first continuously active repeating FRB, and its significant implications for the fields of astronomy and physics.
May 12th, 2023
Read moreAstronomers reveal the largest cosmic explosion ever seen
The explosion is more than ten times brighter than any known supernova and three times brighter than the brightest tidal disruption event, where a star falls into a supermassive black hole.
May 12th, 2023
Read moreHidden supermassive black holes brought to life by galaxies on collision course
Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of energy when they are inside galaxies that are expected to collide with a neighbouring galaxy.
May 11th, 2023
Read moreResearchers find new approach to explore earliest universe dynamics with gravitational waves
Researchers have discovered a new generic production mechanism of gravitational waves generated by a phenomenon known as oscillons, which can originate in many cosmological theories from the fragmentation into solitonic 'lumps' of the inflaton field that drove the early Universe's rapid expansion.
May 11th, 2023
Read moreGalactic bubbles are more complex than imagined
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy's center.
May 9th, 2023
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