An artist’s impression of the events leading up to the supernova explosion of SN 2023zkd, which likely occurred when the star attempted to devour a nearby black hole. Here, the star’s shape is distorted by the black hole’s powerful gravity.…
Scientists have suggested that a newly discovered possible gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could have a habitable moon similar to Pandora from the Avatar films. (Photo: Photo 12, Alamy) A potential gas giant just found orbiting in the habitable…
(Image credit: Giacomo Infelise, Veronica Magli, Guido Sbrogio, Nevenka Martinello and Federica Chiara Serpe) Imagine leaving Earth forever and embarking on a space journey on a ship designed to carry you and thousands of others to the nearest star system,…
An artist’s impression of the Cosmic Grape galaxy, which contains at least 15 large star-forming clusters. (Image credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO) The distant galaxy is thought to contain more than a dozen tightly clustered star-forming clusters arranged like a bunch of…
A look at the Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, where a supermassive black hole is likely hidden. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) A new study has shown that a huge galaxy system known as the “Cosmic Horseshoe” likely hosts a giant…
An illustration of a supermassive black hole merging with a smaller black hole. Such interactions can produce asteroid-sized “fragments” of the black hole, and scientists are eager to study them. (Image credit: Pitris via Getty Images) A new theoretical study…
This artist’s impression shows the galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9, which contains the earliest confirmed black hole to date. (Image credit: Eric Zumalt/University of Texas at Austin) Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a black hole that is more…
Image taken by the Vera K. Rubin Dark Energy Observatory camera. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) Astronomers have found two giant galaxies engaged in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from our planet, and for the first time in a galaxy so…
An artist’s rendering of a black hole. (Photo courtesy of BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash) An astrophysicist has proposed a bold plan for how humanity could explore extreme physics in black holes by sending a spacecraft no bigger than a paper clip…
A “parade” of six planets, four of which will be visible without a telescope, will be visible this August. (Image credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images via Getty Images) Six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune —…
An artist’s impression of a space hurricane spewing plasma high above the North Pole. First recorded in 2014, the nearly eight-hour storm caused significant space meteorological effects despite abnormally low solar activity. (Image credit: Qing-He Zhang, Shandong University) A unique…
Meteorite fragments were recovered from a local resident’s living room in Georgia. (Photo: University of Georgia) Scientists say the space object that punched a hole in a Georgia man’s home this summer could be 20 million years older than our…