Science

Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded With Light

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This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes...

Photo Release: Hubble Watches the “Flapping” of Cosmic Bat Shadow.

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The young star HBC 672 is known by its nickname of Bat Shadow because of its wing-like shadow feature. The NASA/ESA Hubble...

Press release: Super-Earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf

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Artist’s impression of the multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths...

NASA's TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star

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This animated gif is an artist's concept of the planet AU Mic b and its young parent star. The...

ESA listens in on black hole mission

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X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and stars

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By using a new measuring method – the so-called X-ray Thomson scattering – an international team of researchers was able to prove that the high...

Young Planets Bite the Dust

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Six circumstellar disks selected from the larger sample of 26 disks obtained with the Gemini South telescope in Chile using the Gemini...

LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in "Mass Gap"

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In August of 2019, the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave network witnessed the merger of a black hole with 23...