Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) … [+] using the Chandra and Webb telescopes. X-ray emission is a telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed. This composite image …
An artistic representation of how the northern infrared aurora would have looked like in 2006 … [+] (marked in red). The darker red locations indicate confirmed aurora locations, with fainter red used to mark possible aurora locations. Credit to NASA, ESA and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) for the background image of Uranus, as was observed …
Time Warp: Understanding Time and Space Through General Relativity getty A groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomy reveals that during the first billion years of our universe’s existence, time passed five times slower compared to its current pace. This discovery confirms a significant prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, demonstrating that when astronomers …
An international team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery: a second-ever multiplanetary circumbinary system. … [+] circumbinary system. getty Scientists have recently detected a star system where planets orbit two stars instead of just one, reminiscent of the iconic “binary sunset” from the original Star Wars movie. TOI-1338, the 12th known circumbinary star system, …
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding a new supernova, dubbed SN Zwicky. This supernova was able to be seen despite being over four billion light years away from the solar system due to gravitational lensing, a phenomenon in which a distant object is magnified as a result of the intense gravitational field of a …