Ultramassive black hole discovered through a new method
Scientists have been working on an astronomy technique called “gravitational lensing.”
Astronomy
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.
Finding the building blocks of life in outer space
How could life form in outer space?
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