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Category: astrophysics
Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae. Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe […]
This black hole “burps” with Death Star energy
When AT2018hyz, aka “Jetty,” was first discovered, radio telescopes didn’t detect any signatures of an outflow emission of material within the […]
NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope
“It was not recognized how serious a problem that is until… about 2017 or 2018.” The Pandora observatory, seen here […]
Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes
The researchers used cosmological simulations to recreate the first 700 million years of cosmic history, focusing on the formation of […]
Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better
Skip to content But the differences are likely to be subtle, so it won’t be easy. First image of a […]
New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem
Skip to content a black hole hunting machine Physicists spliced merger’s gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas. […]
There could be “dark main sequence” stars at the galactic center
Dark matter particle and antiparticle collisions could make some stars immortal. For a star, its initial mass is everything. It […]
Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books
Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the most massive merger between two […]
New evidence that some supernovae may be a “double detonation”
Skip to content It may be possible to blow up a white dwarf before it reaches a critical mass. Type […]