Scientists find new way to harness energy from black holes
Physicists have found a new way to extract energy from black holes by breaking and rejoining magnetic field lines near the event horizon.
A remarkable...
Scientists find earliest supermassive black hole and quasar in the universe
The most distant quasar known has been discovered.
The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than...
Galaxy mergers in the early universe could limit star formation
Astronomers have looked nine billion years into the past to find evidence that galaxy mergers in the early universe could shut down star formation...
This galaxy is dying out as it loses the ability to form stars
Galaxies begin to "die" when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a...
Scientists find new way to make fuels on Mars
Researchers may have come up with a solution to one of the most pressing challenges of a Mars voyage:
How do we get enough fuel...
Astronomers find the farthest galaxy. Its light took 13.4 billion years to reach us
Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things began.
It’s only been in...
Scientists find winds and jet streams on the closest brown dwarf
A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and stripes on the brown dwarf closest to Earth, hinting at the processes churning the...
Scientists find when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its water
Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu.
While analysis of those returned samples is...
Universe is nearly 14 billion years old, shows study
Astronomers, including Cornell’s Steve Choi, have used observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, to propose that the universe is 13.77 billion years old...
Where did this galaxy’s supermassive black hole go
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened, researchers say.
Despite searching with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope,...