Secret to letting humans BREATHE in space may have been solved with genius science trick SCIENTISTS may have found a way for humans to breathe…
The Dark Side of the Universe: How Black Holes Became Supermassive
New model from Brookhaven Lab physicists suggests the early universe experienced a phase transition that formed supermassive black holes in a dark sector of physics…
Is dark energy just an illusion?
We know how much dark energy there is because it affects the expansion of the universe. Other than that, it’s a complete mystery. It turns…
Massive bubbles in the center of the Milky Way caused by a supermassive black hole
NASA’s visualization team created an overlay of an image of the Milky Way, taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Observatory, and a visualization…
The Telescopes of the Future, and What We Will See Through Them
In the last decade, spectacular progress has been made in the exploration of the cosmos. Milestones include detailed studies of the planets and moons in…
Black hole that was closest yet found does not exist, say scientists in U-turn
Astronomers who thought they had discovered a black hole at our cosmic doorstep said they were wrong, revealing instead that they found a two-star system…
The Unanticipated Phenomenology of the Blazar PKS 2131–021: A Unique Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate
Most large galaxies host supermassive black holes in their nuclei and are subject to mergers, which can produce a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB), and…
Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution
An artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope, fully deployed. The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to be fully operational this summer. Credit:…
Astronomers Find Two Giant Black Holes Spiraling Toward a Collision
In this illustration, light from a smaller black hole (left) curves around a larger black hole and forms an almost-mirror image on the other side.…
The Tycho supernova remnant by NASA’s Chandray Observatory
It was the astronomical event of the last millennium, second only to the discoveries in this millennium of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, as they are…