Machine learning reveals how black holes grow
As different as they may seem, black holes and Las Vegas have one thing in common:
What happens there stays there – much to the...
How to discover life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus
Surrounded by a vast ocean underneath a thick ice shell, Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life.
A team of researchers...
Webb telescope sees through dust to find young stars
Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope contain telltale signs of two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth, say...
Scientists detect an exoplanet spiraling to its doom around an aging star
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an aging star.
The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer...
Astronomers may have uncovered how galaxies change their shape
Researchers may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their research.
Ever since the Hubble...
Astronomers discover clues about stellar ‘glitching’
Stars that experience structural "glitches" during their lifetimes may be more common than first thought.
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics...
These two exoplanets may be mostly water, shows study
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are “water worlds,” planets where water makes...
Largest earthquake on Mars revealed possible past meteoroid impact
The quake lasted four hours and identified layering in the crust that could indicate a meteoroid impact.
The 4.7 magnitude temblor happened in May 2022...
A black hole has been burping for 100 million years
Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies.
Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them, not even light.
So when anything...
Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies
Astronomers have reported the discovery of the earliest galaxies ever confirmed in our Universe.