Astronomers said on Thursday they detected a bubble of hot gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the center of our galaxy at “mind-boggling”…
Webb scans a nearby brown dwarf and finds it has clouds made of sand
Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began its routine science observations, every day there seems to be something new in the world of…
Jupiter is at its closest to Earth in 59 years, NASA says
Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system, will make its closest approach to Earth in the past 59 years, giving observers “excellent views,”…
NASA’s Earth Observatory spots newly birthed island in the Pacific
The new baby island emerged in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes abound. One of these submerged volcanoes woke up on September 10 spewing…
Hot gas bubble spotted spinning around Milky Way black hole
Astronomers have detected a bubble of hot gas swirling around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole at more than 200 million miles per hour. It…
New Image: James Webb Telescope Captures ‘Clearest View’ of Neptune’s Rings in Decades
Credit: NASA Neptune, discovered in 1846, is thirty times farther from the Sun than Earth and orbits in one of the darkest parts of the…
The black hole information paradox solved: black holes do have hair, but quantum
A team of researchers from the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom, and Michigan State University, in the United States, seem to have solved…
Astronomers accidentally discover Black Hole so big you can spot it with a backyard telescope
The Fastest-Growing Black Hole Ever Seen In The Universe A supermassive black hole that grows so fast that it shines 7,000 times brighter than the…
Looking inside a neutron star
A merger of neutron stars. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Laboratory The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications…
They assure that the closest “black hole” to Earth is a “vampire” star system
The black hole considered until now as “the closest to Earth” was discovered in 2020 just a thousand light years from our planet. However, a…