Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a close interaction with a giant black hole and managed to survive and tell its story through exclamations of X-rays. Scientists recorded the event with the Read More …
In 2018, astronomers observed in high resolution a nova explosion with three different space telescopes: NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR space telescopes, as well as the Canadian BRITE-Toronto nano-satellite, and they have captured the first direct evidence that most of the Read More …
The last decades, astronomers have assumed that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. However, a new research, based on data from three X-ray space observatories, indicates that this fundamental assumption might be incorrect. The idea Read More …
A year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration observed for the first time the supermassive black hole at the center of the nearby radio galaxy M87, finding the dark central shadow that was in agreement with General Relativity, further Read More …
Astronomers have detected a double (or a binary as it is called) star system that it is flip-flopping between two alter egos using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl F. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). This Read More …
An artistic view of a star tearing apart by a black hole. Image credit: NASA. Astronomers solved the mystery and found the perpetrator, an intermediate-mass black hole that was caught in action tearing apart a star that just happened to Read More …
Source: NASA / CXC / University of Cambridge / C. Reynolds et al. The “Theory of everything” is a big idea that all forces, particles and interactions in Universe connect with each other under the same framework of physics with Read More …
Scientists have detected an ancient super-massive black hole with the name PSO J030947.49+271757.31. Its distance was calculated 13 billion light-years from Earth making it officially the most distant blazar ever observed with a relativistic jet pointing directly toward Earth. The Read More …
Scientists, while studying a very distant cluster of galaxies, have discovered the biggest explosion ever seen in the Universe since the Big Bang! The energy released from this explosion is five times larger than the previous record holder, which occurred Read More …
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used, for the first time, the reverberating echoes of X-ray radiation in order to map the dynamic behaviour and surroundings of a black hole (BH). This emission is the result of the infalling material into Read More …
