An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system, with the black hole appearing in the center and its companion star to the left. Credit: JOHN…
Is HR 6819 a triple system containing a black hole?
(Image: ESO / L. Calcada) A case of stellar vampirism has been discovered in the HR 6819 system so marked that in its day it…
Black holes in quantum state break the limits of the strange
They would help to achieve a unifying theory between general relativity and quantum mechanics, capable of explaining the nature of the Universe at all its…
Supernova explosions reveal tiny details about dark energy and dark matter
More than two decades of ongoing analysis of supernova explosions strongly supports modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions. Astrophysicists have performed…
76 years ago today, the first views of Earth from Space were delivered from a captured V-2 rocket
On October 24, 1946, the first image of the Earth could be taken. For this, a camera mounted on the rocket that belonged to the…
Could it devour us? Black hole discovered near Earth
Will we be in danger? Recently, a scientific study revealed that there is an extremely giant black hole near the Earth. Likewise, the monstrous hole…
This is how they have achieved quantum teleportation that opens the way to the internet of the future
They show that the teleportation of quantum bits in a network without cables or waves is possible, with a view to a safer internet As…
Mystery object may be a ‘strange star’ made of quarks, scientists say
A relatively small, dense object disguised within a cloud that exploded a few thousand light-years away challenges our understanding of stellar physics. By all accounts,…
What is a gravitational lens?: windows to deep space
Credits: IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The concept of “gravitational lensing” is important to astronomy and physics in general, but what does it really mean?…
Explanation of the Cold Spot in the afterglow of the Big Bang
The circled area is the cold spot. Black lines in the Planck‘s CMB map indicates each constellation, cold spot is in Eridanus constellation. The blue circle…