Ultramassive black hole discovered through a new method Scientists have been working on an astronomy technique called “gravitational lensing.”
Why we’ve heard more about the northern lights lately Every day lately, another story about the northern lights shows up in the news feed.
A new telescope will tell us about the collision of neutron stars When a star reaches the end of its life, it turns into a neutron star, collapsing in on itself and crushing the atoms that made it emit light before. These neutron stars are incredibly heavy (one teaspoon of its matter weighs about four billion tons), and eventually, two of them
Scientists discover origin of repeating signal from beyond our galaxy, but there’s still more to learn On January 6, the scientific journal Nature published a report by a coalition of international astronomers announcing that the origin of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) had been found. This repeating signal originated from a galaxy 500 million light-years from Earth. It is only the fifth time that scientists