Researchers have successfully simulated how a ring-shaped black hole could cause general relativity to break down: assum…
Read >>A Southampton astronomer is among a team of international researchers whose work has revealed a surprising similarity be…
Read >>The cluster, named IDCS J1426.5+3508, is the most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion year…
Read >>An international team of astrophysicists led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist has for the first time witnessed a…
Read >>Microwave radiation is emitted from the direct vicinity of the black hole. This radiation was the focus of a combination…
Read >>A group of astronomers led by the University of Sydney has discovered strong magnetic fields are common in stars, not ra…
Read >>How are asteroids and planets formed from stony particles? This question is being explored in an experiment by scientist…
Read >>With the help of the MAGIC telescopes, scientists have discovered photons — that is, particles of light — with energy ma…
Read >>A team of scientists have developed a new method which can be used to determine the gravity on the surface of distant st…
Read >>Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas. Their conclusions, reporte…
Read >>The recently discovered black hole, which does not have the expected number of stars surrounding it, could provide new i…
Read >>The new method is considered to be a significant tribute to Einstein on the 100th anniversary of his first formulation o…
Read >>Very energetic gamma rays are easily knocked off by visible light, the light from galaxies and stars that fills intergal…
Read >>A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has enabled scien…
Read >>The planet is forming in a transition disk, a doughnut-like ring of dust and rocky debris orbiting its parent star, LkCa…
Read >>It’s widely believed that the moon features networks of caves created when violent lava flows tore under the surface fro…
Read >>The discovery of a tiny new super stormy star could have major implications for the search for habitable planets outside…
Read >>A black hole tore apart a star that got too close and a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes captured the action. This clos…
Read >>Astronomers have made a significant step toward confirming a proposed explanation for how solar flares accelerate charge…
Read >>New research has revealed that the thick donut-shaped disks of gas and dust that surround most massive black holes in th…
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