Nova Cas 2021 (V1405 Cas) has brightened by around two magnitudes in the past few days. The image on the left shows it on 5…
What Is a Black Hole?
Black holes are among the most fascinating objects in our universe, and also the most mysterious.A black hole is a region in space, where the…
A Beginners Guide to Black Holes.
Black holes are one of the strangest things in existence. They don’t seem to make any sense at all.Where do they come from and what…
A Relic Black Hole in a Dwarf Galaxy /aasnova.org
Using a new technique, scientists have identified a supermassive black hole lurking in a low-mass, low-metallicity galaxy. Could this discovery be just the tip of…
Discovery of Binary Black Holes Spin Could Shed Light on the Lifespan of Stars and General Relativity /robologiclab.com
According to Vijay Varma, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, the primary objective of gravitational wave astrophysics is…
Deep water on Neptune and Uranus may be magnesium-rich / news.asu.edu
While scientists have amassed considerable knowledge of the rocky planets in our solar system, like Earth and Mars, much less is known about the icy…
Newly discovered open star cluster hints at other massive groupings hidden in the Milky Way / academictimes.com
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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon/ iopscience.iop.org
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations at 230 GHz have now imaged polarized emission around the supermassive black hole in M87 on event-horizon scales. This polarized…
In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma ‘hum’ /phys.org
Voyager 1—one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space—still works and zooms toward infinity….…
The Closest Black Hole Is 1,000 Light-Years Away/ eos.org
An unseen object—probably a black hole—orbits with two normal stars in our cosmic neighborhood. MORE: eos.org/articles/the-closest-black-hole-is-1000-light-years-away#:~:text=Rivinius%20and%20his%20collaborators%20estimated%20that%20the%20black,implies%20that%20systems%20like%20this%20one%20are%20common.