MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant ...
Major cuts to its funding could lead to layoffs for half of the observatory’s staff by October and, according to concerned scientists, a premature end to the mission around 2026. Astronomers are ...
Stellar mass black holes, which are significantly smaller than their supermassive cousins, usually weigh in at around 10 solar ... BH3—was discovered when astronomers analyzed the wobbly orbit ...
Carbon emissions associated with air travel to professional conferences make up a sizable fraction of the emissions produced by researchers in academia. Carbon emissions associated with air travel ...
Astronomy was the basis of many key beliefs for the ancient Egyptians. They used skywatching to fix the dates of religious festivals, to predict the annual flooding of the Nile, and to count the h ...
All of these light emissions can allow astronomers to spot black holes. The question is, how can "dormant" black holes that aren't feeding on gas and dust around them be detected? For instance ...
It was only around 1200 CE that zero, invented centuries earlier in India, came to Europe. This led to the way we write numbers today. This brief history makes clear that numbers were developed ...
Astronomers could finally show that alien life does exist on a distant planet following observations today. Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years away ...
Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92 which is more than any other planet in our solar system. A member of the Astronomers team said ...
Astronomers from the University of Warsaw, Poland and elsewhere have detected a new classical Cepheid variable star. The newfound star, which received designation OGLE-GD-CEP-1884, has the longest ...
It could appear in days, or it could be months—astronomers aren’t sure ... which despite being roughly the size of Earth contains around 40 percent more matter than the sun, making it ...