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Researchers Spot Rare Burst of Light from Star Gobbled by Supermassive Black Hole

Researchers have used telescopes from across the globe to observe a rare burst of light from a star as it is gobbled by a supermassive black hole.

13 Oct 2020

Transportable Radio Telescopes Used for Precise Comparisons of Best Atomic Clocks

Researchers have connected optical atomic clocks on each continent by observing distant stars through radio telescopes.

9 Oct 2020

Study Shows Gravitational Waves Encode Shape of Merging Black Holes

Among the most captivating things in the universe, black holes are interesting candidates.

9 Oct 2020

Astronomers Turn Up the Heavy Metal to Shed Light on Star Formation

Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.

7 Oct 2020

Study Offers New Insights into Lithium-Rich Stars

One of the ancient elements nearly as old as the universe is lithium. Although lithium is one of the building blocks of the present-day universe, the observations of lithium in several celestial bodies are usually in disagreement with the speculations of classic theories.

6 Oct 2020

Study Reveals How Matter is Distributed in the Centers of Galaxies

Recently, a glimpse of the processes occurring in the centers of “active galaxies” was provided by a group of astronomers from UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), the University of Maryland, and Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam in their study published in The Astrophysical Journal.

1 Oct 2020

Astrophysicists Establish the Presence of Water in Star Dust

Interstellar medium refers to the matter between the stars in a galaxy. It contains gas as well as a significant amount of dust. At a certain period of time, planets and stars evolved in such an environment, because the dust particles can cluster together and combine into celestial bodies.

23 Sep 2020

Modern Telescopes Help View the Galactic Center in Different Types of Light

The core of the Milky Way galaxy is quite far away for individuals to visit it directly, but people can still investigate it. Telescopes now offer an opportunity to observe what the Galactic Center looks like in diverse forms of light.

23 Sep 2020

NASA’s IRIS Reveals the Heating Mechanism of Solar Corona

Scientists have recently described the first ever distinct images of nanojets (bright thin lights that move in a perpendicular direction to the magnetic structures in the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona) in a process that exposes the presence of one of the promising coronal heating candidates: nanoflares.

22 Sep 2020

Researchers Detect Distinctive Signature of Black Holes

An international group of astrophysicists has discovered unique signatures of black hole event horizon, unquestionably differentiating them from neutron stars—objects, similar to black holes in terms of size and mass but confined inside a hard surface.

22 Sep 2020