Tag Archives: Astronomy

Astronomers at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected X-rays from the planet Uranus for the first time. The researchers used observations of the ice giant taken in 2002 and 2017 to detect …

Scientists at the international collaboration Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) announced Wednesday that they had been able to map magnetic fields around a black hole using polarized light waves for the first time, …

Two years ago, The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made headlines with its announcement of the first direct image of a black hole. Science magazine named the image Breakthrough of the Year. Now …

Left: the horizontal white line points to the new nova. Right: the same region of space seen four days earlier, sans nova. Picture: Yuji Nakamura / NAOJ TO new nova, appearing in …

An asteroid similar in size to the Golden Gate Bridge will swiftly pass our planet this weekend, the largest and fastest asteroid to pass Earth this year. But don’t worry, it won’t …

Artist’s rendition of ‘Oumuamua.Picture: William Hartmann Four years ago, astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. The object exhibited a number of strange and inexplicable …

“We don’t expect most supermassive black holes to move; they are generally content to sit down, ”Pesce said in a statement. “They are so heavy that it is difficult to start them. …

A view of Mars made up of about one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Picture: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS The water that used to exist on Mars slowly seeped into space, or at …

Astronomers have detected a moving black hole. Supermassive black holes They usually sit still as they suck in whatever comes their way, but scientists have long thought it was possible that they …

The host galaxy of a mobile supermassive black hole.Picture: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) About 230 millions of light years from Earth, there is a black holes going places. These extraordinarily dense …