This is what the black hole’s shadow looks like when it is cast on the powerful relativistic jet emanating from the center of the radio galaxy. This is the shadow…
Category: Space
DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly 2 Million Cosmic Objects
The universe is big, and it’s getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of our universe, scientists are using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)…
NASA’s New Detectors – Better Views of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars — all while being…
Supermassive Black Hole Waves ‘Right Around the Corner’
New study further narrows the search for elusive pairs of supermassive monster black holes. Although astrophysicists have never sensed supermassive black hole binary systems, a galaxy-sized detector composed of dead…
NASA’s Curiosity captures Martian morning, afternoon in new ‘postcard’
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of “Marker Band Valley” at two times of day on April 8. Color was added to a combination…
Planet Orbiting 2 Stars Discovered Using New Technique
An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new type of planet that orbits two stars – what is known as a…
Extremely Warped Supernova Discovered – Technology Org
Astronomers have been observing the gravitational bending of light since 1919, just a few years after Einstein developed the theory, but the transient nature of supernovae makes events such as…
New Instrument Sets Sights on Turtle Nebula
A new instrument for studying a web of filaments that connects galaxies across the universe has captured its first image, a milestone known in astronomy as “first light.” A googly-eyed…
New observatory instrument sets its sights on Turtle Nebula
A googly-eyed KCWI, posing as Thomas the Train’s lookalike and getting ready to return to the Keck II Telescope after having KCRM installed with it. Credit: C. Martin/Caltech A new…
