Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video
Astronomers have observed a black hole outburst and have caught it on video. For this, they used NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory.Astronomers, using NASA's...
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What Is A High-Energy Jet?
A high-energy jet originates near supermassive black holes at the center of active galaxies. They carry so much energy they can outshine an entire galaxy.A...
Astronomers Find Closest Black Hole To Earth
Astronomers from the European Space Observatory have just found the closest black hole to Earth. It lives in a triple system.Astronomers from the European ...
VLT Sees Star Dance Around Black Hole
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) sees a star dance around the supermassive black hole. The observations prove Albert Einstein right, again.A swarm of stars o...
What Are Active Galaxies?
Most of the galaxies we observe are normal galaxies. We inhabit a normal galaxy called the Milky Way. But what about active galaxies?When you observe a nor...
Iron Rains On This Hot Exoplanet
Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have found an ultra-hot gas giant exoplanet where iron rains from the sky at night.The exoplanet WASP-76 b lie...
What Is A Super-Earth?
Super-Earth worlds are planets that are bigger than our Earth but smaller than Neptune. We don't have such planets in the Solar System.Aleksander Wolszczan...
Finding Alien Life Around Dying Stars
Dying stars do host planets that have a chance for life. Alien life may be easiest to find around dying stars such as white dwarfs.The reason why alien lif...
Potential Super-Earth Found Orbiting Proxima Centauri
Astronomers have traced a signal they believe belongs to a super-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri. But more observations are needed to confirm it.In 2016, a...
Strange Objects Found Near Our Central Black Hole
Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have found some strange objects near the Milky Way's central black hole.It is the central superma...