Black Hole

A rare peek into the black hole where some of academia’s best and brightest disappear to make a dent in the universe. What is Apple University? And how did it persuade a distinguished intellectual like Professor Cohen (Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford) to join i…

Farhad Yusef-Zadeh was observing the center of the Milky Way galaxy in radio waves, looking for the presence of faint stars, when he saw it: a spindly structure giving off its own radio emissions. The filament-like feature was probably a glitch in the telesco…

NASAs Juno spacecraft recently caught this ominous view of Jupiter, which shows a massive black spot atop the gas giants churning clouds. Looks scary, but theres a perfectly reasonable explanation: Its a shadow cast by Jupiters extremely volcanic moon, Io. J…

Astronomers have spotted “dramatic” black holes in six galaxies, which could shed new light on galactic evolution. “We found a whole new class of active galactic nucleus capable of transforming a wimpy galaxy to a luminous quasar,” said Suvi Gezari, an assoc…

Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass …

Making a monumental scientific breakthrough is really kind of its own reward. Even so, it’s always nice to get extra recognition in the form of unexpected money. For the 347 scientists around the world who made history when they captured the first image of a …

X-ray bursts repeating about every nine hours have been detected originating from the center of a galaxy called GSN 069.X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Optical: DSS We all know we should be getting three square meals a day. And now astronomers h…

Asteroid fear: Expert warns of '50 megaton power' of asteroid that just passed Earth - Express.co.uk

Surrey NanoSystems in the UK announced Vantablack, a nanotech material, in 2014 to much fanfare and many Spinal Tap jokes. It became known as one of the blackest-black materials ever created. At the time, Surrey NanoSystems described Vantablack as "revolutio…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin X-ray brightness of a black hole shows periodic fluctuations. ESA/XMM-Newton; G. Miniutti & M. Giustini (CAB, CSIC-INTA, Spain) Black holes are an astronomical …