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In 1971, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed how energy could be extracted from a rotating black…
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Neutron stars (NS) are the collapsed cores of supermassive giant stars that contain between 10 and 25 solar masses. Aside…
Both the Milky Way and a galaxy known as M87 have supermassive black holes at their core. These are the…
The vicinity of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, is hyperactive. Stars, gas,…
When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched at the end of 2021, we expected stunning images and illuminating scientific…
Over the last few months, Universe Today has explored a plethora of scientific fields, including impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets,…
Black holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. This is at least partly due to the extreme physics that…
Gravitational wave astronomy has been one of the hottest new types of astronomy ever since the LIGO consortium officially detected…