In a new, groundbreaking discovery, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that woke up from slumber after 20 years of inactivity. Located in the heart of the SDSS1335+0728 galaxy in the Virgo constellation, which is around 300 million light years away, the massive black hole was detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility after it […]
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The stars in the sky seem to shine forever, but they too are subject to lifespans determined by their mass and internal physics. Some last for billions of years and others are transitory in comparison, with far shorter lifetimes. Regardless of duration, all stars survive by maintaining a balance between two competing forces: the inward […]
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According to Johns Hopkins University, this image offers an “unprecedented opportunity to observe how billions of years ago galaxies coalesced into the modern universe.” “We think something dramatic is about to happen in these systems. The galaxy is at this perfect moment in its lifetime, about to transform and look entirely different in a few […]
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Sometimes it is hard to remember that we and everyone we know live on a rock that is rapidly moving across an endless and mysterious place that we still know very little about—space. From a gamma-ray burst sweeping across our planet due to the birth of a star to how some stars give a “warning” […]
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An unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of radiation swept over our planet on Sunday, October 9, according to NASA. This cosmic blast came from a “gamma-ray burst,” (GRB) which is one of the most powerful kinds of explosions in the universe. As the wave of X-rays and gamma rays passed through the solar system, it […]
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According to research published in the journal Nature Astronomy, ancient Mars could have had an environment which was capable of harbouring underground microscopic organisms. Elsewhere, astronomers say they have witnessed a “never seen before” event where a black hole “burped” out stellar material three years after consuming a star. Read about all that and more […]
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In 2018, scientists observed a black hole about 650 million light-years away ripping a star into shreds because it got too close. That was about par for the course as far as black holes go. But three years later, the same black hole lit up and spewed out matter, and it didn’t swallowing anything in […]
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The black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster has long been associated with sound. In 2003, astronomers discovered that the pressure waves sent out by this black hole cause ripples in the cluster’s gas that can be translated into a note, albeit, one that humans cannot hear. But NASA has created a […]
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Last week, NASA revealed some of the science and technology payloads that will be hitching a ride to deep space with the agency’s Artemis I moon mission. In the same week, a Russian cosmonaut had to cut short his spacewalk because of a space suit battery malfunction. Here is our recap of an exciting week […]
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Next to nothing can escape the strong gravitational pull of a black hole but now scientists are planning to use the collisions of black holes to understand the age of the universe and its evolution. In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, University of Chicago astrophysicists have developed a method for using pairs […]
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