MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant ...
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'We can’t quite explain it, but if you add Planet Nine into the model it all makes sense.' By Briley Lewis | Published May 2, 2024 8:30 AM EDT Artist's concept of a hypothetical planet orbiting ...
Astronomers have determined what caused the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded. Lasting a matter of minutes, the gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, was observed by astronomers in October 2022.
Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC 19529–4430. It turned out that ...
Until recently, a large black hole formed from a collapsed star was able to avoid detection from the prying eyes of our powerful telescopes – despite lurking nearby Earth and being 33 times the ...
Astronomers will be alerted to gravitational waves faster than ever before as LIGO and other detectors "listen" to a ...
A: We had no direct view of Earth until the dawn of the Space Age. Finding physical evidence that our planet revolves around the Sun took some clever thinking to prove that this heliocentric model ...
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to wait for another day to fly to the International Space Station in an orbital capsule that has already faced years of costly technical delays.
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the ...