Astrophysics

Credit: Giovanni Ceribella/MAGIC Collaboration In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This was the most intense gamma-radiation ever obtained from such a cosmic object. But the…

KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in which we can…

Credit: Courtesy of Arecibo Observatory/University of Central Florida - William Gonzalez and Andy Torres. An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an…

Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy mergerCredit: Hopkins Research Group, Caltech Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky.…

Credit: FEFU press office Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that large and dense particles with irregular shapes possess a 10 nm silicate feature…

"Light squeezer" reduces quantum noise in lasers, could enhance quantum computing and gravitational-wave detection. Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum "light squeezer" that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15…

Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.…

Credit: Guillaume Seigneuret and NASA A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Approximately 90 percent of all stars…

Credit: College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2020 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Martha P. Haynes, Goldwin…

Proposed work is expected to significantly increase knowledge of dark matterCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The John Templeton Foundation has supported research on a diverse range of subjects including…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI) Lithium is becoming common in our everyday lives. It is the key ingredient in the batteries of our mobile phones and electric vehicles, but have you ever wondered where it comes from?  A new…

Credit: Animation: Dhanesh Krishnarao / University of Wisconsin-Madison Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way--a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances--could yield new…

Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the…

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble. Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17. Most stars in the universe,…

The discovery of the second-most distant quasar shakes up scientists' understanding of black hole growth Often described as cosmic lighthouses, quasars are luminous beacons that can be observed at the outskirts of the Universe,…

Credit: CASSACA The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world. Extragalactic neutral hydrogen detection is one of important scientific…

The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the interior of a planet. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick …

Study shows LIGO's 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the "spooky popcorn of the universe." The universe, as seen through the lens of quantum mechanics, is a noisy, crackling space where…

Coronae of supermassive black holes may be the hidden sources of mysterious cosmic neutrinos seen on Earth Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory,…

Evidence of very high-energy gamma radiation from Eta Carinae Credit: Illustration: DESY, Science Communication Lab With a specialised telescope in Namibia a DESY-led team of researchers has proven a certain type of binary…