Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed in 1971 that the boundary of black holes, known as the event horizon, never shrinks over time. Now, 50 years…
They manage, for the first time, to observe light ‘behind’ a black hole
While observing the powerful X-ray emissions launched into space by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford…
Discovery of infrared rays
The discoverer of infrared rays was Sir Frederick William Herschel born in Hanover, Germany 1738.He was well known both as a musician and as an…
Scientists detect a ‘tsunami’ of gravitational waves
Two black holes merge to become one. Credit: NASA A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the…
Mars, the red planet
Mars owes its name to the god of war in Roman mythology (Ares, according to the Greeks), son of the gods Jupiter and Juno (or…
Discover a hidden black hole in our neighboring galaxy.
The astronomers found it using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and observed how the black hole’s gravity affects the…
Pluto’s dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons
The dark side of Pluto is faintly illuminated by sunlight reflected by the moon Charon in images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015…
State-of-the-art energetic and morphological modelling of the launching site of the M87 jet
The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is surrounded by an accretion disk (red in this computer simulation) and launches jets (blue) circled by…
How does a nuclear reactor work
A nuclear reactor is defined as an installation capable of initiating, maintaining and controlling the fission chain reactions that take place in the reactor core,…
Black hole found hiding in star cluster outside our galaxy
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how…