4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (705+ words) For a long time, intermediate-mass black holes remained a mystery to astronomers. Now, however, they have evidence of one moving through the dwarf galaxy UGCA 320. What is more, they have obtained evidence that it is also actively consuming matter as…...

4+ day, 7+ 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....

6+ day, 1+ 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…...

1+ week, 39+ min ago   (403+ words) Scientists have proposed a new exotic mechanism for the formation of low-mass black holes. They may exist inside massive stars if dark matter gets inside them. In this case, their existence is sustained by the gravity of the star. Black…...

1+ week, 7+ 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   (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, 5+ day ago   (772+ words) The rate of star formation within the universe has decreased by more than fifty percent over the past several billion years. It would be reasonable to hypothesize that galaxies are merely depleting their raw materials. However, empirical measurements indicate otherwise....

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…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (303+ words) The main object of the study was the aging star IRS 3, located near the Galactic center. By combining data from the infrared instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers were able for the first time to obtain a continuous…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (316+ words) By observing dense star clusters near the central regions of the Milky Way, astronomers found evidence of a major merger that occurred approximately 11.8 billion years ago. At that time, the Universe was less than 15% of its current age, and only…...