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Black holes in the early universe pose a bit of a problem. Based on observations from telescopes on Earth and in space, we know that some black holes grew to be a billion times the mass of the sun just one billion years after the Big Bang. Current models of black hole growth, however, can't explain this speed of growth.
Dec 10th, 2019
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Scientists discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic field of which is apparent only when the star is seen under a certain angle relative to the observer.
Dec 9th, 2019
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Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a study that may also help to improve industrial processes.
Dec 9th, 2019
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Astronomers have found a special population of dwarf galaxies that could mainly consist baryons within radii of up to tens of thousands of light-years. This contrasts with the normal expectation that such regions should instead be dominated by dark matter.
Dec 9th, 2019
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Because we don't know what's pushing the universe outward ever more quickly, 'dark energy' is scientists' shorthand for the mysterious process. To understand the history of our universe, researchers are collaborating with scientists around the globe to build elaborate 3D maps of space and time.
Dec 7th, 2019
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Astronomers have come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide.
Dec 6th, 2019
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Our closest-ever look inside the sun's corona has unveiled an unexpectedly chaotic world that includes rogue plasma waves, flipping magnetic fields and distant solar winds under the thrall of the sun's rotation.
Dec 6th, 2019
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New research suggests that hibernation is a likely option to make deep space exploration a reality.
Dec 5th, 2019
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A team of astronomers proposes a new method of using Webb to determine whether a rocky exoplanet has an atmosphere. The technique, which involves measuring the planet's temperature as it passes behind its star and then comes back into view, is significantly faster than more traditional methods of atmospheric detection like transmission spectroscopy.
Dec 2nd, 2019
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Astrophysicists suggest radiation that lights the densest objects in our universe is powered by the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields.
Nov 27th, 2019
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Researchers using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope have taken a new and significant step toward detecting a signal from the period in cosmic history when the first stars lit up the universe.
Nov 26th, 2019
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Astronomers have investigated polarized radio emission from the galaxy NGC 4631 at the VLA radio telescope. They detected for the first time a regular magnetic field over scales of several thousands of light years in the halo of NGC 4631.
Nov 26th, 2019
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Theoreticians in two different fields defied the common knowledge that planets orbit stars like the Sun. They proposed the possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole.
Nov 25th, 2019
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Research team discovers three supermassive black holes at the core of one galaxy.
Nov 21st, 2019
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Scientists have determined the emission of extremely energetic light particles during the death of a very heavy star for the first time.
Nov 21st, 2019
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First evidence of bio-essential sugars in meteorites.
Nov 21st, 2019
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The researchers observed a gamma-ray burst with an afterglow that featured the highest energy photons - a trillion times more energetic than visible light - ever detected in a burst.
Nov 20th, 2019
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Astrophysicists modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into other star systems called binary systems because they have two stars. They concluded that 87% of exo-Earths one might find in binary systems should have axis tilts similarly steady to Earth's, an important ingredient for climate stability that favors the evolution of complex life.
Nov 19th, 2019
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