Key takeaways: Astronomers created a remarkable map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes, detected not by light, but by the powerful radio waves emitted from their […]
Category: Astronomy
A mysterious wave-like structure that sheds 9,000 light-years in length on our Milky Way
Key takeaways: The Radcliffe Wave, a massive 9,000 light-year long star-forming structure in the Milky Way, is not just orbiting the galaxy but also oscillating […]
The brightest quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun
Key takeaways: Astronomers have found the brightest known quasar, J059-4351, located 12 billion light-years away, outshining our sun by 500 trillion times. The quasar’s supermassive […]
Scientists find 300 billion tons of water in glass beads on the Moon
Key takeaways: Researchers found water stored in tiny glass beads formed by asteroid impacts on the moon, potentially holding up to 300 billion tons of […]
An unusual molecule found on another world, and only organisms can produce it
Key takeaways: Researchers detected a possible chemical signature, dimethyl sulfide (DMS), in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, a molecule produced by living organisms on Earth. […]
The moon once drifted thousands of miles farther away, and Earth’s days got 2.2 hours longer
Key Takeaways: Researchers have discovered that Earth’s days grew over two hours longer due to the Moon moving farther away from Earth during two key […]
Mysterious upward-shooting ‘blue jet’ lightning spotted from International Space Station
Key Takeaways: These are rare lightning-like flashes that shoot from the tops of storm clouds toward space, reaching up to 30 miles into the stratosphere. […]
Was our universe generated inside the quantum chaos of a black hole in another universe?
Key Takeaways: Both black holes and the universe have event horizons and singularities, but the singularity in a black hole is a point in space, […]
First-ever observational proof connects black holes to dark energy
Key Takeaways: Researchers found evidence of “cosmological coupling,” suggesting black holes grow in mass over billions of years due to their connection with the expanding […]
Two Supermassive Black Holes Set to Collide Will Distort Space and Time in about 10,000 Years
Key takeaways: Two supermassive black holes, each hundreds of millions of times the mass of the sun, are spiraling toward a colossal collision 9 billion […]