1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1059+ words) Space tends to instill fear in ordinary individuals. They perceive it as being filled with phenomena beyond scientific comprehension, potentially threatening their safety. However, in fact, space has been extensively researched by scientists and remains, in many respects, highly predictable....

4+ day, 8+ 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, 8+ hour ago   (449+ words) For the first time, the distance to an asteroid was measured by laser from aboard a spacecraft passing it at a speed of several kilometers per second. Japanese specialists detected the return signal twice at the moment of closest approach....

4+ day, 10+ 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, 6+ hour ago   (134+ words) Separately, a coronagraph — a device that obstructs the star’s light to enable direct imaging of faint planets and protoplanetary disks around stars — will be tested onboard. For the Roman mission, this primarily constitutes a technological experiment aimed at refining the…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (581+ words) A research team led by Adina Denton of the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI, USA) improved the classical models developed in the early 2000s by planetary scientist Robin Canup. The main innovation of the new study was taking into account the internal…...

6+ day, 4+ 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, 7+ 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, 3+ hour 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, 10+ 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…...