A gleaming new Hubble Space Telescope image captures the glow of thousands upon thousands of stars in an ancient globular cluster near the Milky Way’s heart. A globular cluster is a massive collection of stars that are attracted in close … Read More
During a time that humankind’s ancestors were learning to walk upright, use their hands, and create the first primitive tools, cosmic events left a mark in our galaxy that our developed society would later see, millions of years later. Five … Read More
In a galaxy far, far away lies an exoplanet circling a binary system that contains a neutron star or black hole. Astronomers believe they have discovered the first extragalactic exoplanet beyond our own galaxy. The binary system M51-ULS-1, located 28 … Read More
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has passed another test. Researchers have detected a subtle shift in the orbit of the closest known star to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way after nearly three decades … Read More
A water reserve the size of 140 trillion oceans lurks in a distant supermassive black hole, the Universe’s largest deposit of water ever found – 4,000 times the amount found in the Milky Way. Two teams of astronomers discovered this … Read More
A group of scientists obtained a stunning image of a distant galaxy, reminding us all how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.This ‘monster galaxy’ is approximately 12 billion light-years from Earth and generates new stars 1,000 times … Read More