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Machine learning reveals how black holes grow

Machine learning has deduced the rules governing the relationship between the growth of a galaxy and the growth of the supermassive black hole at its center. The tight correlation between the two growth rates found in this research confirms a decades-old theory.

December 15, 2022 Read more

Scientists get first-ever sound recording of dust devils on Mars

When the rover Perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet's surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an extraterrestrial whirlwind.

December 14, 2022 Read more

ALICE estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter

The antimatter counterpart of a light atomic nucleus can travel a long distance in the Milky Way without being absorbed, shows the international ALICE collaboration.

December 13, 2022 Read more

Proposal for picogram-scale probes to explore nearby stars

Use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the destination to explore nearby stars.

December 13, 2022 Read more

Curved spacetime in the lab

Researchers simulate an entire family of universes with curvature in ultracold quantum gases.

December 10, 2022 Read more

Space and time: Clocks to detect dark matter

Scientists study ways to send atomic clocks closer to the sun to understand the universe's greatest mysteries

December 10, 2022 Read more

Microbial miners could help humans colonize the moon and Mars

The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile's Atacama Desert has inspired engineers to think of new ways microbes might help humans build colonies on the moon and Mars.

December 9, 2022 Read more

The messy death of a star

Around 2500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132, one of the first five image packages from the James Webb Space Telescope.

December 9, 2022 Read more

Deep-space discovery: Oddball gamma-ray burst forces revision of theoretical framework

A long-duration gamma-ray burst observed in late 2021 revealed signatures typically associated with short-duration bursts, forcing puzzled scientists to create a new model for the origin of this unique burst.

December 8, 2022 Read more

Robots can identify and remove space junk

There is a lot of space junk orbiting the Earth. Researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will make this possible.

December 5, 2022 Read more

The James Webb telescope produces an unparalleled view of the ghostly light in galaxy clusters

Thanks to its efficiency at infrared wavelengths and the sharpness of the images of the JWST, researchers have been able to explore the intracluster light from SMACS-J0723.3-7327 with an unprecedented level of detail.

December 3, 2022 Read more

Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say

The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

December 1, 2022 Read more

A black hole has been seen ripping apart a star

Astronomers have been able to piece together data showing that a supermassive black hole has been snacking on a nearby star.

November 30, 2022 Read more

Astronomers observe intra-group light - the elusive glow between distant galaxies

Pioneering a new technique, researchers have peered into the extremely faint light that exists between galaxies to describe the history and state of orphan stars.

November 24, 2022 Read more

Astronomers observe innermost structure of quasar jet

An international team of scientists has observed the narrowing of a quasar jet for the first time by using a network of radio telescopes across the world. The results suggest that the narrowing of the jet is independent of the activity level of the galaxy which launched it.

November 22, 2022 Read more

Webb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world's skies.

November 22, 2022 Read more

New collaboration to probe physical reality's quantum 'glue'

An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding of what some physicists have called the 'glue' that holds the universe together - the strong nuclear force.

November 18, 2022 Read more

Black holes in eccentric orbit

Astronomers reconstructed the origin of an unusual gravitational wave signal that may result from the merger of two massive black holes that captured each other in their gravitational field and then collided while spinning around each other in a rapid, eccentric motion.

November 18, 2022 Read more