NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just reached its final destination, around a point in space with special gravitational properties known as the second Lagrange…
Extraordinary black hole found in neighboring galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a black hole with 100,000 solar masses that was hiding in the Andromeda galaxy, inside a large cluster of stars: it is…
2021: A year of space tourism, flights on Mars, China’s rise
Several tycoons of the world consider that the future of humanity is in outer space. During this year some missions and explorations in space were…
The universe could contain 40 trillion black holes
A team of researchers from the Higher International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, has just made the most accurate estimate yet of how…
Rapid turn-on of a luminous X-ray source in the candidate Lyman continuum emitting galaxy Tol 0440-381
The Haro 11 galaxy. Like Tololo 0440-381, this nearby galaxy gives off a type of radiation that scientists think resembles the characteristics of the earliest…
Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger Detected for the First Time
For the first time, scientists from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Florida believe they have detected a merger of two…
How many black holes are out there in the universe?
The number of black holes in the observable Universe (a sphere with a diameter of about 90 billion light years) is currently about 40 trillion,…
Disclosure or deception? New UFO Pentagon office divides believers
By Alex Seitz-Wald NBC News WASHINGTON — The US Government is finally getting back on the UFO issue. And depending on which UFO believer you…
Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 continues to pack a punch, defying astronomers’ expectations.Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe: ripping apart stars,…
Photos of huge asteroid 1994 PC1. It passed Earth safely January 18
Here’s an image of asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 during a flyby of Earth in 1997. The space rock appears as a trail due to its…