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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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New research by astrophysicists presents a compelling roadmap for capturing intermediate-mass black hole activity.
Nov 18th, 2019
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Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to touch up the cosmological model.
Nov 18th, 2019
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The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found.
Nov 15th, 2019
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Black holes 'have no hair': no attributes that can be used to tell them apart. Extreme black holes can have an additional property, permanent hair that is made of a massless scalar field. Nearly extreme black holes have hair that is a transient phenomenon: nearly extreme black holes that attempt to regrow hair will lose it and become bald again.
Nov 15th, 2019
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First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planets.
Nov 14th, 2019
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Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, travelling at a blistering 6 million km/h, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago.
Nov 12th, 2019
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Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe.
Nov 8th, 2019
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With the powerful eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed straight into the bright and hot heart of a galaxy 11 billion years old in no less than 12 multiple, gravitationally lensed images. The finding casts light onto a crucial era in our universe?s history: the epoch of reionization.
Nov 8th, 2019
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Astronomers have unveiled the results of a newly-completed, state of the art simulation of the evolution of galaxies. It allows researchers to study in detail how galaxies form, and how they have evolved since shortly after the Big Bang. For the first time, it reveals that the geometry of the cosmic gas flows around galaxies determines galaxies? structures, and vice versa.
Nov 7th, 2019
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Astronomers have studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a result they found that black holes thermalize the same way ordinary matter does.
Nov 5th, 2019
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Research offers a critical understanding of a process both in stars and in chemical systems on Earth.
Nov 1st, 2019
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Astronomers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing. The exoplanet has a mass similar to Neptune, but it orbits a star lighter (cooler) than the Sun at an orbital radius similar to Earth's orbital radius.
Nov 1st, 2019
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Researchers observe huge outflow of gas extending far beyond a galaxy for the first time.
Oct 31st, 2019
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TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is NASA's newest exoplanet mission. TESS will find thousands of new planets orbiting nearby stars. During its two year survey, TESS will watch a wide variety of stars, looking for signs of planets ranging from Earth-size to larger than Jupiter.
Oct 31st, 2019
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Team models stellar activity on Milky Way neighbors to judge impact on planets.
Oct 31st, 2019
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A giant-impacts phase in the evolution of planetary systems can explain the observations of close-in giant planets with eccentric orbits.
Oct 30th, 2019
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