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Black hole 'donuts' are actually 'fountains'

Based on computer simulations and new observations, researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple donut shapes. Instead, gas expelled from the center interacts with infalling gas to create a dynamic circulation pattern, similar to a water fountain in a city park.

November 30, 2018 Read more

Astronomers discover giant relic of disrupted 'tadpole' galaxy

A team of astronomers have identified a disrupted galaxy resembling a giant tadpole, complete with an elliptical head and a long, straight tail, about 300 million light years away from Earth.

November 19, 2018 Read more

Our stellar neighbourhood expands

Astronomers have found a planet in orbit of Barnard's star. Barnard's star is a so-called red dwarf and after the Alpha-Centauri triple stellar system the second closest star to the Sun.

November 15, 2018 Read more

Auroras unlock the physics of energetic processes in space

A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space.

November 15, 2018 Read more

New finding of particle physics may help to explain the absence of antimatter

With the help of computer simulations, particle physics researchers may be able to explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe. The simulations offer a new way of examining conditions after the Big Bang, and could provide answers to some fundamental questions in particle physics.

November 13, 2018 Read more

Radio telescope measures dust grains that could seed new planets

Radio observations map the sizes of dust grains in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a star.

November 9, 2018 Read more

Spacetime - a creation of well-known actors?

Most physicists believe that the structure of spacetime is formed in an unknown way in the vicinity of the Planck scale, i.e. at distances close to one trillionth of a trillionth of a metre. However, careful considerations undermine the unambiguity of this prediction.

November 8, 2018 Read more

Astronomers find elusive star with origins close to Big Bang

Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang.

November 6, 2018 Read more

Most detailed observations of material orbiting close to a black hole

The GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way.

October 31, 2018 Read more

Artificial intelligence bot trained to recognize galaxies

Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence program used to recognise faces on Facebook to identify galaxies in deep space.

October 31, 2018 Read more

Scientists refine the search for dark matter

Researchers have developed a more effective technique in the search for clues about dark matter in the universe. They can now analyse much larger amounts of the data generated at CERN.

October 29, 2018 Read more

Study provides new insight into why galaxies stop forming stars

Scientists get best measure yet of why star formation stopped in galaxy clusters in the early universe.

October 24, 2018 Read more

In 5-10 years, gravitational waves could accurately measure universe's expansion

New LIGO readings could improve disputed measurement quickly.

October 23, 2018 Read more

Weighing planets and asteroids

A team of scientists from the International Pulsar Timing Array consortium has used pulsar timing data to measure the masses of the dwarf-planet Ceres and other asteroids.

October 23, 2018 Read more

A scientific theory proposes a new Celestial Mechanics

A new scientific theory points out that we can understand the behavior of bodies subjected to successive accelerations by rotations, by means of field theory.

October 23, 2018 Read more

Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets

Flares from the youngest red dwarfs surveyed are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. This younger age is when terrestrial planets are forming around their stars.

October 19, 2018 Read more

Supermassive black holes and supercomputers

Researchers reveal the story of the oldest stars and galaxies, compiled from 20 years of simulating the early universe.

October 17, 2018 Read more

The cosmological lithium problem

This problem is one of the still unresolved questions of the current standard description of the Big Bang.

October 8, 2018 Read more