Space telescopes will help to get clearer black holes pictures
Astronomers have only recently been able to get the world’s first photographs of a black hole, and now researchers are faced with the task of obtaining clearer images...
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Dark matter exists – observations do not support alternative hypotheses
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of modern astrophysics and cosmology. Presumably, it accounts for 90 percent of the matter of the Universe, but so far the...
Magical science demonstration of water not spilling from an upside down glass
This gravity defying water trick, watch til the end. from r/blackmagicfuckery A science teacher uses a classic but eternally astonishing demonstration in a lesson on...
Asteroid-killer approaching – we don’t know when, so let’s be ready
Catastrophic effects, such as those as asteroid-killer that hit dinosaurs 66 million years ago, are not limited to the past. Earth will face another big asteroid. Sooner or...
How Gaia spacecraft compile the most accurate map of the Milky Way
The Gaia spacecraft, launched in 2013 by the European Space Agency (ESA), conducts a survey of the starry sky with orbiting telescopes in order to build the largest and most...
A star from a dead galaxy discovered in the Milky Way
Analyzing the chemical composition of more than four hundred stars, astronomers stumbled upon an extremely unusual star, a further study of which showed that it was born...
Water rich asteroid Itokawa
Asteroid Itokava, resembling a peanut, has a length of about 535 meters and a width of 210 to 300 meters. It makes one revolution around the Sun in 18 Earth months at an...
Elliptical galaxy Messier 87 – a giant galaxy around a giant black hole
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) telescope team presented the world’s first image of a black hole event horizon, a zone whose boundaries nothing,...
A black hole rotating space
Watching a black hole absorbing a star, astronomers first saw how the jets of ejected substance repeatedly changed their direction during very short periods of time, the best...