The study of X-ray emission from astral objects reveals secrets about the Cosmos at the smallest and largest spatial scales. Celestial X-rays are produced by black holes consuming proximate stars, emitted by the million-degree gas that fills the space between
Read Full ArticleThe Euclid Space Telescope has bared the "first page" of the cosmic atlas it is building. This section of the map of the universe being built by Euclid was released on 15th October 2024, and it features tens of millions of
Read Full ArticleUsing radio pulsars, West Virginia University’s Emmanuel Fonseca is pioneering the detection of gravitational waves, with aim to reveal insights into neutron stars and the fabric of the cosmos. His work, backed by substantial National Science Foundation funding, fuses traditional
Read Full ArticleThe most faraway and thus earliest rotating disk galaxy ever speckled has surprised astrophysicists and could in fact challenge our theories of galactic evolution. Not only does it ostensibly exist too early in the universe to be sturdily spinning, the
Read Full ArticleAstrophysicists are spotting an entirely new class of giant black holes that dwarf even the supermassive ones located at the centre of galaxies. Could there be some even more gargantuan lurking out there in the darkness of space? At the
Read Full ArticleEmploying NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists found a galaxy with an unusual light signature, where its gas seemed to shine brighter than its stars. In an astounding discovery, researchers have identified a 'weird' galaxy that may offer new
Read Full ArticleEmploying the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope), astronomers have captured a spectacular image of a faraway supernova in a galaxy that seems like it's being stretched like warm taffy. But, the golden smear hiding this gravitationally lensed supernova, which has
Read Full ArticleEvery planet in our planetary system (solar system) is essentially spherical. But out in the cosmos, are there any planets that aren't round? Technically, planets are spherical, by definition; they ought to have sufficient mass to produce the gravity essential
Read Full ArticleThe expansion of our cosmos is accelerating. Possibly it’s some enigmatic form of dark energy, but last year scientists put forth the radical idea that the accelerated expansion is because of our universe absorbing adjacent baby cosmoses. More recent research
Read Full ArticleAt age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sad at the predicament of a book. She read a newspaper article about how hordes of people were purchasing A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. “But then … nobody was actually reading
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