Scientists have Figured out how to Feed a Black Hole Researchers discovered long, narrow dust filaments that surround and feed black holes in galaxies’ centers, and which could be the natural cause of the darkening…
The Eating Pattern of a Black Hole Reveals its Size According to the researchers, black hole feeding patterns provide information about their size. A new study found that the brightness flickering observed in actively feeding…
Microbes Could Aid in the Production of Rocket Fuel for Mars Return Missions One of the challenges we face in our quest to colonize Mars is a lack of fuel. If humans on Mars want to return to…
Fireball across Midwest Sky Was Probably Failed Russian Satellite, Say Astronomers People began to speculate about what the mysterious light could have been almost immediately. Was it a meteor, possibly a stray from the Orionid meteor…
Something Just Smacked Into Jupiter… Again Jupiter, if it were sentient, could be wondering what it did to make space rocks dislike it so much, given it has been hit twice…
Discovered a Youngest Planet around a Distant Infant Star An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Hawai’i (UH) and Japan’s National Institutes of Natural Sciences Astrobiology Center, has discovered one…
How the Universe Reflects in the Vicinity of Black Holes Space is so warped in the vicinity of black holes that even light rays may curve around them several times. This phenomenon may allow us…
New Galaxy Images Revealed details about How First Stars Formed New images have revealed detailed clues about how the Universe’s first stars and structures formed, implying that the formation of the Galaxy got off to…
Latest Estimate of How Much Information Is In the Visible Universe Have you ever considered how large your computer’s hard drive would have to be to hold all of the data in the universe? A physicist…
Astronomers discovered Evidence of a Planet’s Atmosphere being Stripped Away by a Massive Impact A team of researchers discovered evidence of a giant impact in the nearby HD 17255 star system, in which an Earth-sized terrestrial planet and a…