Universe Today (Page 224)

A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - March 07, 2023 03:42 PM UTC | Black Holes

A team of astronomers from Japan have found a strange "Tadpole" shaped dust cloud near the center of our galaxy, and concluded that it orbits a intermediate-mass black hole.

The Neutron Star That Thinks It's a Black Hole

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - March 07, 2023 03:09 PM UTC | Stars

Are There Better Ways to Communicate with Mars?

By Andy Tomaswick - March 07, 2023 09:45 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Want to Soar to the Stratosphere? Japan Joins the Balloon Tourism Race

By Alan Boyle - March 06, 2023 08:42 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Hubble's Orbit Has Dropped So Far that Starlink Satellites are Photobombing its Images

By Evan Gough - March 06, 2023 06:56 PM UTC | Telescopes

Stars Can Eat Their Planets...and Spit Them Back Out Again

By Paul Sutter - March 06, 2023 02:14 PM UTC | Stars

Watch a Baby Planet Carve Out a Home for Itself

By Paul Sutter - March 06, 2023 02:13 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The Earth has an Even More Inner Core, and it's a Ball of Solid Metal

By Matthew Williams - March 05, 2023 08:56 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Based on seismic data from about 200 earthquakes in the past decade, a team of Australian scientists found evidence of a fifth layer in Earth's interior: an innermost-inner core!

The Universe May Have Started with a Dark Big Bang

By Paul Sutter - March 05, 2023 02:07 PM UTC | Cosmology

How do Black Holes Make a Shadow?

By Paul Sutter - March 04, 2023 06:52 PM UTC | Black Holes

Just Dropped: New Close-up Images of Io from Juno, With More to Come

By Nancy Atkinson - March 04, 2023 10:49 AM UTC | Planetary Science

An Earthworm Robot Could Help Us Explore Other Worlds

By Evan Gough - March 03, 2023 05:18 PM UTC | Space Exploration

It Would Take Hubble 85 Years to Match What Nancy Grace Roman Will See in 63 Days

By Matthew Williams - March 03, 2023 04:12 PM UTC | Telescopes

A NASA-led team of researchers created a simulation that demonstrates what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see.

Astronomers Go Hunting for Mysterious Q-balls

By Paul Sutter - March 03, 2023 02:05 PM UTC | Physics

Why are Earth's Hemispheres the Same Brightness? New Research Solves a 50-year-old Mystery.

By Nancy Atkinson - March 03, 2023 12:56 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?

By Evan Gough - March 03, 2023 12:28 PM UTC | Black Holes

ESA's Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury

By David Dickinson - March 03, 2023 04:44 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Solar Orbiter's unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system's innermost world.

A Very Young Star is Forming Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - March 02, 2023 05:42 PM UTC | Milky Way

An international team of astronomers spotted a young, massive star orbiting very close to Sagittarius A*, which was previously thought to be impossible.

The Dark Energy Camera Captures the Remains of an Ancient Supernova

By Evan Gough - March 02, 2023 03:41 PM UTC | Extragalactic

A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation

By Matthew Williams - March 02, 2023 02:53 PM UTC | Milky Way

New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of the galaxy.