Universe’s Brightest Object Found - A Quasar 500 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun (www.forbes.com)
"The black hole in this quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date."
"The black hole in this quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date."
Astronomers studying six planets orbiting a star 100 light years away have just found that they orbit their star with an almost rhythmic beat, in perfect synchrony.
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA’s Psyche mission.
Anton Petrov is a pretty good astronomy themed youtube channel, check it out if you haven't seen his stuff yet.
NASA will have to wait until October for an automatic spacecraft reset that should restore communication, according to officials.
It's hard to say what these possible 'dark stars' really are.
Quasars are the supermassive black holes at the centres of early galaxies. Scientists have unlocked their secrets to use them as ‘clocks’ to measure time near the beginning of the universe.
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there's one piece of evidence we can't ignore that shows otherwise.
We know it couldn't have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
For the first time, researchers using a pulsar timing array have found evidence for the long-sought-after gravitational wave background.
The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 1:09 p.m. EDT on June 20, 2023. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event....
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After Ed Dwight lost out on becoming the first Black astronaut, he carved out a celebrated later career as a sculptor
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