Credit: NASA Astronomers have validated the first detection of what appears to be a wandering black hole drifting through the Milky Way. The research has…
Scientists discover a black hole with unstoppable growth: “I don’t think we’ll find another like this”
The uncertainties and mysteries about black holes have always been very present among the scientific community. These astronomical objects have such a strong gravitational pull…
How many galaxies are there in the universe?
While estimates among different experts of how many galaxies there are in the universe vary, an acceptable range is between 100 billion and 200 billion,…
Florida scientists manage to grow plants on lunar soil
Scientists from the University of Florida have grown plants on the soil of the Moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar…
Did life on Earth come from space? Possibly not, and that’s good news
Credit: NASA The recent discovery of the bases of DNA and RNA, the basic molecules of life, in carbonaceous meteorites evokes big questions: did life…
Revealing the mysteries of black holes
In recent days, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has put the name Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) on everyone’s lips by showing its new results,…
They discover a black hole that “floats” through the galaxy
A group of astronomers would have detected a kind of “ghost star” that would be moving freely Astronomers believe that the death of large stars…
A black hole with unstoppable growth is discovered
The fastest growing black hole in the last 9 billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers from the ANU (Australian…
The NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified a possible floating black hole 5,000 light-years away from Earth.
They discover a free-floating ‘dark’ black hole in our galaxy In early 2022, Hubble astronomers, using gravitational microlensing, were able to detect, for the first…
A group of astronomers would have detected a kind of “ghost star” that would be moving freely
They discover a black hole that “floats” through the galaxy Astronomers believe that the death of large stars is the origin of black holes, so…