An international team of astrophysicists has made a puzzling discovery while analyzing certain star clusters. The finding challenges Newton's laws of gravity, the researchers write in their publication. Instead, the observations ...
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Oct 26, 2022
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Astronomers have performed a comprehensive study of a peculiar "black widow" millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0610−2100. Results of this research, published March 11 on the arXiv pre-print repository, deliver essential ...
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center of the galaxy Messier 77 that is hiding a supermassive black hole. The findings have confirmed ...
Astronomy
Feb 16, 2022
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Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. Not many were known until now, but a team of astronomers, ...
Astronomy
Dec 22, 2021
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation ...
Astronomy
Nov 30, 2021
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Astronomers from Austria and Northern Ireland have inspected a peculiar extreme helium supergiant star known as HD 144941. Results of the new study, published October 21 on the arXiv pre-print server, indicate that HD 144941 ...
When Betelgeuse, a bright orange star in the constellation of Orion, became visibly darker in late 2019 and early 2020, the astronomy community was puzzled. A team of astronomers have now published new images of the star's ...
Astronomy
Jun 16, 2021
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Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the center of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.
Astronomy
Jun 11, 2021
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The first detailed cross-section of a galaxy broadly similar to the Milky Way, published today, reveals that our galaxy evolved gradually, instead of being the result of a violent mash-up. The finding throws the origin story ...
Astronomy
May 24, 2021
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New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most recently detected interstellar visitor to our Solar System, ...
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2021
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