(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, European astronomers have for the first time demonstrated that a magnetar -- an unusual type of neutron star -- was formed from a star with at least 40 times as much mass ...
Astronomy
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Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of the University of Tokyo demonstrates a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even ...
Astronomy
May 30, 2024
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You may have seen one of these astronomical scale picture sequences, where you go from the Earth to Jupiter to the Sun, then the Sun to Sirius – and all the way up to the biggest star we know of VY Canis Majoris. However, ...
Astronomy
Dec 12, 2011
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One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity, which described how gravity warps and distorts space-time.
General Physics
Feb 12, 2016
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Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Astronomy
Dec 2, 2011
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Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming region of the outer Milky Way.
Astronomy
Apr 15, 2019
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A research team led by astronomers and astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that some of the Universe's loneliest supernovae are likely created by the collisions of white dwarf stars into neutron stars.
Astronomy
Aug 7, 2014
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A massive explosion from a previously unknown source—10 times more energetic than a supernova—could be the answer to a 13-billion-year-old Milky Way mystery.
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2021
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When a massive star dies, first there is a supernova explosion. Then, what's left over becomes either a black hole or a neutron star.
Astronomy
May 14, 2021
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An international team of space scientists has found that observation of a gas cloud stream heading into a massive galaxy may offer evidence of gas material recycling. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group ...
