New study reveals a star’s unexpected survival
As the star is shredded, its remnants are transformed into a stream of debris that rains back down onto the black hole to form a very hot, very bright disk of material swirling around the black hole, called an accretion disc.
Scientists discover system’s second earth-size planet
Scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface.
Scientists find matter flung out of our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers have used an intense burst of radio waves originating from a nearby galaxy to inspect the halo of gas cocooning our own Milky Way galaxy.
Ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in time, finds NASA study
In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze of light.
Why nuclear fusion is so exciting?
The Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California last week achieved fusion with a net energy gain, the U.S. Department of Energy reported on Thursday.
A trip to the sun could reveal “ultralight” dark matter if it exists
Sending an atomic clock onboard a spacecraft to fly close to the sun might be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter,...
Astronomers discover enigmatic cosmic explosion
Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe, resulting from either collapsing stars or from the collision of two compact stellar remnants.
Early dark energy could explain the crisis in cosmology
In 1916, Einstein finished his Theory of General Relativity, which describes how gravitational forces alter the curvature of spacetime.
Among other things, this theory predicted...
Scientists use quantum computing to observe entanglement
For the first time, scientists sent quantum information across a quantum system in what could be understood as traversing a wormhole.
Scientists discover a black hole jet, halfway across the universe, pointing straight toward Earth
Astronomers identified an extremely bright black hole jet, halfway across the universe, pointing straight toward Earth.