NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a groundbreaking discovery, confirming the closest pair of supermassive black holes ever detected. These two cosmic giants, located in the...
New research indicates that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, likely formed through the merger of two black holes. The study, published in...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the spiral galaxy IC 4709, located approximately 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. This remarkable galaxy,...
Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) have made groundbreaking discoveries about the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Utilizing a...
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has allowed scientists to identify a new cosmic “exhaust vent” that is directing hot gas away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole...
Posted on May 15, 2022 in Alien Life, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Multiverse, Science, Science News, Technology,...
Posted on May 14, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Science Several of the world’s leading astronomers and scientists emailed their thoughts to The Daily Galaxy on the significance of...
Posted on May 16, 2022 in Astrobiology, Climate Change, Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Extraterrestrial Life, Future, Origin of Life, Planet Earth, Science, Science News, Standard Model of Physics, Technology Today’s...
Posted on May 12, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Milky Way Galaxy Breaking news: as we predicted, astronomers captured the first image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the black hole...
Astronomers have known since the 1990s that planets exist around pulsars. It’s a reasonable hypothesis that planets might also exist around black holes, which have a weaker impact on their...
Could the formation of supermassive black holes, as well as the nature of dark matter, be the result of violent cosmological phase transition in the dark sector of the Universe....
Today’s stories range from Mysterious Globular Clusters Could Unlock the Secrets of Galaxy Formation to ‘Quantum Gravity’ Could Emerge From a Holographic Universe to 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes in One...
“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time,” said...
Posted on Dec 15, 2021 in Science Nobel-Prize laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for whom NASA’s Chandra Observatory was named, described black holes as “the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in...
Posted on Nov 15, 2021 in Astrobiology, Space, Technology “The Biological Cosmos”–Complex Carbon Molecules Form Spontaneously in Space Strange ‘Eggshell’ Planets Orbiting Distant Stars –Too Thin to Sustain Plate Tectonics...
In August of 2019 at the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astrophysicist Tuan Do, Deputy Director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group, observed that in...
Posted on May 10, 2021 in Science “Station of Extreme Light” –‘A New Physics That Can Tear Apart the Fabric of Spacetime’ “The Extraterrestrial Signal”–The Human Species May Not Want...
In 2019 astronomers lifted the veil on the monster black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy. Using computer modelling, the scientists simulated...
A new theoretical study has proposed a natural explanation for how supermassive black holes –once described as “the most perfect macroscopic objects in the universe, the only elements in their...
Posted on Sep 17, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Holes The story: In April of 2019, Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer Marc Postman said that when he first first saw the...
Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science “These days, I’m mostly wandering into galaxies and looking for the light switch,” says Harvard astrophysicist Peter Maksym, who appears...
Posted on Dec 12, 2020 in Science During the past two years, two strange events have occurred at our Milky Way’s violent center. In October of 2019, Milky Way’s central...
Posted on Dec 21, 2020 in Science “Defying the Laws of Gravity” –Does a ‘Smoking Gun’ Nix Dark Matter Theory? “Ghostly Messengers” –Massive Underground Instrument Reveals ‘Final Secret’ of Our...
Posted on Nov 20, 2020 in Science The now iconic image of M87’s monster black hole–an object described as “the most perfect macroscopic objects in the universe, the only elements...
Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Science “The idea of a black hole ‘sucking in’ a nearby star sounds like science fiction. But this is exactly what happens in a...
“We believe we have just seen the tip of the iceberg, and that the few galaxies discovered so far around this supermassive black hole are only the brightest ones,” said...
Posted on Oct 29, 2020 in Science Unlike the now iconic gargantuan black hole the size of our solar system at the center of nearby elliptical galaxy, M87, with its...
Avi Shporer with the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research via UC Santa Cruz, Sandra Faber, and the Neils Bohr Institute Recent research suggests that in massive galaxies,...
“These objects look like gas and behave like stars,” said co-author Andrea Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics and director of the UCLA Galactic...
On March 2, 2019, astronomers reported discovery of a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive monster in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, supporting...
Posted on Apr 24, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes An image of annihilation: data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton has revealed a red giant star wandering too...
Posted on Mar 21, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Energy Black holes, predicted Einstein, are supposed to have a singularity—a point that is so small and dense that...
Posted on Jan 1, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Happy New Year from the supermassive black hole of galaxy M106, courtesy of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the...
“It’s like a crime scene investigation. The case involves an explosion, a suspect, and various pieces of circumstantial evidence,” said Matthias Kadler, astrophysicist at the University of Würzburg in Germany...
Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Technology In November of 2020 astronomers unveiled an image of the Milky Way’s violent center similar in importance to the Event...
Posted on Oct 28, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science, Space “If you map the expected orbit of a star around Sagittarius A*, you should see deviations from that orbit...
Posted on Oct 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Physics, Science, Space At the center of the galaxy, millions of stars whirl in orbits around a supermassive black hole that can take...
Posted on Oct 2, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Space Supermassive black holes simply grow along with the stars independent of their host galaxy’s mass, the larger environment, or...
Posted on Oct 4, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Space New research from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and the University of Tokyo suggests very strongly that gas...
Posted on Oct 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science One of the unsolved mysteries of the early universe is why supermassive black holes already existed only a billion years...
Posted on Sep 4, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Space “The supermassive black hole in the center of the quasar gobbles up an enormous amount of nearby materials, which...
Posted on Sep 12, 2019 in Science “The first image I saw that night, the black hole was so bright I initially mistook it for the star S0-2, because I...
Posted on Aug 9, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Physics, Science, Space Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed what may be the most distant shrouded supermassive black hole,...
Posted on Aug 7, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “What we believe we are seeing is a rare but important step in the life of these galactic beasts during galaxy...
Posted on Jul 17, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Space “We saw something completely unexpected” said astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, who found a mysterious thin disk of...
Posted on Jul 26, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Physics, Science, Space This image of microquasar SS 433, first discovered forty years ago, located about 18 000 light-years away in...
Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Cosmos, Science, Space “Have you seen your body in X-rays? It looks completely different,” says astrophysicist Rashid Sunyaev. “We will do the...
Posted on May 26, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Universe How supermassive black holes formed at the birth of a galaxy “is one of the last great mysteries of the...
. “Beautiful as it is, our Universe is constantly evolving, often through violent events like the Milky Way’s forthcoming collision with the Large Magellanic Cloud,” said Carlos Frenk, Director of...