Decades of searching in the Milky Way’s nearby ‘twin’ galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star

2017年10月26日 · The European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured a fantastic image of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, which includes a stunning array of galaxies of all shapes and colours. Amongst the galactic army is a special galaxy named NGC 1316, and its immersive past has created an exciting formation of loops, arcs and rings that astronomers have now imaged in greater detail then ...

2018年4月5日 · An international team of researchers from eight different countries has now made ultrahigh-angular-resolution images of the black hole jet in the centre of the giant galaxy NGC 1275, also known as radio source Perseus A or 3C 84. They were able to resolve the jet structure ten times closer to the black hole in NGC 1275 than what has been possible before with ground-based instruments ...

2019年9月5日 · NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory later observed that the source – known as an ultraluminous X-ray source, or ULX – had disappeared just as quickly. The object has since been named ULX-4 because it is the fourth ULX identified in this galaxy.

First, at least one spinning, supermassive black hole in one of the galaxy clusters produced a rotating, tightly-wound magnetic funnel. The powerful electromagnetic fields associated with this structure have accelerated some of the inflowing gas away from the vicinity of the black hole in the form of an energetic, high-speed jet.

2019年9月25日 · The International Space Station is the largest structure in space so far. It has been painstakingly assembled from 32 launches over 19 years, and still only supports six crew in a little-under-a-thousand cubic metres of pressurised space. It’s a long way from the giant rotating space stations some expected by 2001. The problem is that the rigid aluminium modules all have to be launched ...

Spinning at a hectic speed which almost matches the rate allowed by Einstein’s theory of gravity, the properties of this supermassive black hole attempt to resolve a long-lived debate about similar measurements in other black holes leading to a more solid vision of …

Spinning black hole caught gulping down star The mystery extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy has been solved

2017年7月4日 · The mammoth spiral galaxy NGC 3359 has been caught devouring its ancient neighbouring dwarf, the Little Cub galaxy. While astronomers observe the gas being stripped from the Little Cub, they also believe the pint-sized structure could provide clues about the …

2017年5月18日 · Astronomers using the SOAR telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have reported the discovery of a spectacular extended jet from a young brown dwarf. With masses too low to sustain hydrogen fusion in their interiors, brown dwarfs occupy the mass range between stars and giant planets. While young stars are commonly found to launch jets that extend over a light year or more ...