4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (256+ words) Astronomers have publicly presented a unique animation with the highest resolution ever achieved, showing in detail a giant jet erupting from a supermassive black hole. Creating this short video required more than 27 years of observations and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (480+ words) The team links this growth to the galaxy UGC 1176, located approximately 400,000 light-years away. Such close encounters can disturb cold gas in the outskirts of a galaxy and trigger star formation there. According to Ignacio Trujillo, a researcher at the Instituto…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (550+ words) Astronomers have been recording supernova explosions for several centuries. Despite this, the process itself is understood only in broad terms. The issue is not the brightness or shape of the remnant, but the nuclear reactions taking place inside. These determine…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (342+ words) The study results, published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, indicate that rapidly growing black holes in the early Universe may often have formed close pairs through interactions between their host galaxies. LRDs are one of James…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (354+ words) The composition of dark matter remains unknown. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are regarded as the leading candidates. It is believed that interactions between WIMPs and atomic nuclei occur with exceedingly low frequency; consequently, any extraneous background noise could potentially…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (693+ words) According to recent data, the boundary of the galaxy’s principal stellar structure is approximately 260 kiloparsecs from the core, and its overall diameter extends to 1.7 million light-years. “By way of comparison: the diameter of the Milky Way’s stellar disk is about…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1049+ words) Historically, a comprehensive study of astronomy was a prerequisite for being regarded as educated, a requirement that extended to lawyers, physicians, and theologians alike. This exemplifies the nature of medieval education. Mercury was responsible for this phenomenon — not the retrograde…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (300+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope has enabled scientists to observe the supernova SN 2023aeaf. It is classified as a Type II supernova, indicating it resulted from the gravitational collapse of a massive star. Notably, it is distinguished by having gone supernova…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (201+ words) As the study’s first author Yi-Zhong Fan noted in a comment to New Scientist, the detection of a sharp gamma-ray line would constitute indisputable evidence for the existence of dark matter particles and would make it possible to uncover their…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (293+ words) What was the Universe like before the appearance of the first stars, planets, and even simple atoms? During the first millionth of a second after the Big Bang, all of space was filled with quark-gluon plasma — an extremely hot “soup…...