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UrduIt is one of the most common forms of carbon in space: C60, a soccer ball-shaped carbon molecule, but one that has an extra proton attached to it. This is the conclusion of research carried out at Radboud University, which…
Tag: ASTROPHYSICS
New Horizons team, mission principal investigator Stern receive Sir Arthur Clarke Award
Award recognizes international space achievement for New Horizons’ exploration of Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
A model will help to understand the solar dynamics
An international group of scientists, in cooperation with a research scientist from Skoltech, has developed a model to describe changes in solar plasma. This will help comprehend solar dynamics and gives some clues to understanding how to predict space weather…
Caught in afterglow: 1st detection of Inverse Compton emission from dying gamma-ray burst
A dying star emits intense flashes of light called a gamma-ray burst. Most days, the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope detects these flashes. About 20 years ago, scientists predicted that a gargantuan energy level – tera-electron volts – would be detected…
Extremely energetic particles coupled with the violent death of a star for the first time
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and DTU Space in Lyngby have determined the emission of extremely energetic light particles during the death of a very heavy star for the first time. The discovery was made in…
The simultaneous merging of giant galaxies
Research team discovers three supermassive black holes at the core of one galaxy
Gamma-ray bursts with record energy
First detection of the cosmic monster explosions with ground-based gamma-ray telescopes
Outback telescope captures Milky Way center, discovers remnants of dead stars
A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the centre of the galaxy in which we live, the Milky Way. The image from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope shows what our galaxy…
Artyom Yurov, IKBFU physicist: ‘Can quantum effects occur at mega-scale?’
An article of the IKBFU Director of Institute of Physics, Mathematics and Informational Technology, Artyom Yurov and the Institute’s Associate Professor, Valerian Yurov was recently published in European Physical Journal
First detection of gamma-ray burst afterglow in very-high-energy gamma light
After a decade-long search, an international team of researchers including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) have for the first time detected a gamma-ray burst in very-high-energy gamma light. This discovery was made…
Breaking the limits: Discovery of the highest-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief and extremely powerful cosmic explosions, suddenly appearing in the sky, about once per day. They are thought to result from the collapse of massive stars or the merging of neutron stars in distant galaxies. They…
Hubble studies gamma-ray burst with highest energy ever seen
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe — a blast of gamma-rays a trillion times more powerful than visible light. That’s because in a few…
NASA’s Fermi, swift missions enable a new era in gamma-ray science
A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have produced the highest-energy light yet seen from these events, called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The record-setting detections, made by two different ground-based observatories,…
New water-based optical device revolutionizes the field of optics research
A new method of modulating light using water as a medium, called giant optical modulation, which is less expensive and easier to use than conventional methods
The tera from outer space
Astronomers discover the most energetic gamma-ray burst ever witnessed
UTSA program prepares students for future careers in nuclear security
UTSA project funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration prepares students to become professionals with strong backgrounds in nuclear security
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
“They’re out there,” goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into…
Scientists find evidence of missing neutron star
Astronomers uncover the relic at the heart of Supernova 1987A that has been hidden for over 30 years
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
“They’re out there,” goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into…
Scientists find evidence of missing neutron star
Astronomers uncover the relic at the heart of Supernova 1987A that has been hidden for over 30 years
The measurements of the expansion of the universe don’t add up
The mystery of the Hubble constant
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging…
The measurements of the expansion of the universe don’t add up
The mystery of the Hubble constant
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging…
How to observe a ‘black hole symphony’ using gravitational wave astronomy
Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent years, many researchers have made strides in understanding black holes using observational astronomy and an…
Nearly extreme black holes which attempt to regrow hair become bald again
The black holes of Einstein’s theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge. Since two black holes that share these parameters cannot be distinguished, regardless of how they were…
Images from NJIT’s big bear solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mystery
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star’s upper atmosphere,…
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…November 14, 2019 – A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States,…
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planets
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…November 14, 2019 – A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States,…
Two cosmic peacocks show violent history of the magellanic clouds
Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). A team of astronomers found several massive baby stars in the complex filamentary clouds, which agrees well with computer…
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planets
Two cosmic peacocks show violent history of the magellanic clouds
Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). A team of astronomers found several massive baby stars in the complex filamentary clouds, which agrees well with computer…
Spin doctors: Astrophysicists find when galaxies rotate, size matters
Sky survey provides clues to how they change over time
Winners of the 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
Strong local reporting on the status of Puget Sound’s killer whales, the degradation of soils in a region of France, air quality in Utah, and the impact of an Idaho nuclear research facility are among the winning entries for the…
Black hole mergers: Cooking with gas
New study proposes light signature for detecting black hole mergers
Distant worlds under many suns
University of Jena astrophysicist discovers numerous multiple star systems with exoplanets
OFC 2020 Plenary: Future of optics communications, 5g innovations, astronomy’s frontier
Global visionaries headline largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals
Winners of the 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
Strong local reporting on the status of Puget Sound’s killer whales, the degradation of soils in a region of France, air quality in Utah, and the impact of an Idaho nuclear research facility are among the winning entries for the…
Black hole mergers: Cooking with gas
New study proposes light signature for detecting black hole mergers
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered
Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environment
Distant worlds under many suns
University of Jena astrophysicist discovers numerous multiple star systems with exoplanets
OFC 2020 Plenary: Future of optics communications, 5g innovations, astronomy’s frontier
Global visionaries headline largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered
Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environment
A runaway star ejected from the galactic heart of darkness
Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h, that was ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago. The discovery of the star, known as S5-HVS1,…
A runaway star ejected from the galactic heart of darkness
Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h, that was ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago. The discovery of the star, known as S5-HVS1,…
Ancient gas cloud reveals universe’s first stars formed quickly
Washington, DC– The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie astronomers to perform the earliest-ever measurement of how the universe was enriched with a diversity of chemical elements. Their findings reveal that the…
Clemson scientists further refine how quickly the universe is expanding
Clemson team collaborates to quantify one of the most fundamental laws of the cosmos
Daniel Gruen awarded 2019 Panofsky Fellowship at SLAC
His work aims to deepen our understanding of dark matter, dark energy and other secrets of the universe.
New study suggests ‘Pac-Man-like’ mergers could explain massive, spinning black holes
RIT Associate Professor Richard O’Shaughnessy contributes to study in Physical Review Letters