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One of the key questions puzzling astrophysicists since the first gravitational wave detection is: how did these heavy black hole pairs get close enough to merge?
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2017
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Exploding stars carry a cloak of dense material that puzzles astronomers.
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2017
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The spots on the surface of our Sun bear witness to the activity in its interior.
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2017
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Imagine you're on your way to Mars, and you lose a crucial tool during a spacewalk. Not to worry, you'll simply re-enter your spacecraft and use some microorganisms to convert your urine and exhaled carbon dioxide into chemicals to make a new one.
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2017
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Their computations revealed that an additional Earth-like planet with a dynamically stable configuration may be residing at a distance ranging from 0.25 to 2.0 astronomical unit (AU) from Gliese 832.
Posted: Aug 17th, 2017
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New radio observations show clumps of gas streaming from supermassive black hole.
Posted: Aug 15th, 2017
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Observations of a supernova colliding with a nearby companion star take astrophysicists by surprise.
Posted: Aug 14th, 2017
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Theories and models show how instabilities develop in extreme energy releases from black holes.
Posted: Aug 14th, 2017
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A mathematician argues that species go extinct soon after harnessing technology.
Posted: Aug 11th, 2017
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Findings suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon's ancient churning, molten core.
Posted: Aug 11th, 2017
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To better understand how galactic wind affects star formation in galaxies, researchers turned to high-performance computing.
Posted: Aug 10th, 2017
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A team of astronomers have discovered that the core of our sun rotates about four times faster than the surface. It's in the middle of our solar system, on our cosmic doorstep, so how could we have missed that before? And why is it important?
Posted: Aug 10th, 2017
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Astronomers discover new class of variable dwarf star.
Posted: Aug 9th, 2017
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This new model proposes an alternative to the WIMP paradigm that is the subject of various experiments in current research.
Posted: Aug 8th, 2017
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Researchers offer another means by which stars could have produced heavy elements: tiny black holes that came into contact with and are captured by neutron stars, and then destroy them.
Posted: Aug 4th, 2017
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Astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological models.
Posted: Aug 3rd, 2017
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