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Astronomers explain one of the strangest explosions ever seen in our universe  The Washington Post AI helps astronomers make a potentially major find — an exploding star being attacked by a black hole  Space Megastars shredded by black holes offer new type of cosmic explosion  Science News Explores Star Trying to Swallow a Black Hole May Have Triggered a New Type of Supernova  ScienceAlert …

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the University of Queensland have provided insights into the likely fate of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This study, led by Dr. Sarah Sweet and part of the larger Delegate survey, investigates the future merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, along with …

A recent breakthrough in astronomical research, published in Nature Astronomy, has provided a detailed glimpse into the internal structure of an ancient galaxy, thanks to one of the strongest gravitational lensing events ever observed. The study, led by Seiji Fujimoto, reveals how natural magnification through gravitational lensing allows scientists to study distant galaxies with unprecedented clarity. The research, which combines …

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy behind it into a near-perfect circle called an Einstein ring, effectively reducing a realm with trillions of stars of its own into an …

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the earliest black hole found thus far, dating back to more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole and its home galaxy, together dubbed CAPERS-LRD-z9, existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. Its properties could help researchers understand what the universe was like in that elusive early …

When Anne Jakrajutatip was asked how she would evolve beauty pageants, the Miss Universe CEO didn’t hesitate. She didn’t believe evolution was necessary. “Evolution?” Jakrajutatip asked, her eyes widening as she sat alongside Victoria Kjær Theilvig during a press conference in November 2024 after the 21-year-old from Denmark was crowned Miss Universe. “We have blond and blue eyes,” Jakrajutatip continued, …

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas distributions. In a paper authored by Manisha Caleb from the University of Sydney, the team report upon the discovery of FRB 20240304B which lies at a redshift of 2.148 +/- …

This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. Astronomers have discovered over a dozen “dormant” galaxies that paused their star formation within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The discovery, made with data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), illuminates a fascinating phase in the lives of early galaxies and could provide more …

Astronomers Spot Possible Biggest Black Hole in the Universe  SciTechDailyView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

A distant galaxy appears to have more than a dozen tightly packed star-forming clumps arranged like a bunch of grapes — far more than astronomers thought possible in a galaxy from the early universe. The galaxy, nicknamed “Cosmic Grapes,” is believed to have formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang. A new study has revealed that the galaxy …