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 …
Astronomers reported an X-ray detection of star formation in a highly magnified, strongly lensed galaxy. The system is a low-mass, low-metallicity starburst with increased X-ray emission and is an infant galaxy! Specifically, it was formed when our universe was less Read More …
Like every year, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were announced for their contributions to science. The benchmark for 2019 was the broader field of Astrophysics, as Nobel shared with three scientists for their contributions to Astronomy and Read More …
One of the most important space missions was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 13 July 2019 (14:31 CEST). The launch was, initially, scheduled for June 21st, however it was postponed three times due to technical issues of the “Proton Read More …
ALMA image of the disk of cool hydrogen gas flowing around Sagittarius A*. The colours represent the motion of the gas relative to Earth: the red portion is moving away and the blue colour represents gas moving toward Earth. Credit: Read More …
