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Chinese Academy of Sciences Leads Discovery of Unpredicted Stellar Black Hole

November 28, 2019

The monster black hole is located 15 thousand light-years from Earth and has been named LB-1 by the researchers

Astronomers Find Evidence of Missing Neutron Star

November 20, 2019

Scientists uncover the relic at the heart of Supernova 1987A that has been hidden for over 30 years

New Study Suggests 'Pac-Man-Like' Mergers Could Explain Massive, Spinning Black Holes

November 11, 2019

RIT associate professor Richard O'Shaughnessy contributes to study in Physical Review Letters

Hubble Captures Galaxies' Ghostly Gaze

October 31, 2019

Menacing-looking 'face' formed by titanic smashup between two galaxies

Physicists Have Found a Way to 'Hear' Dark Matter

October 14, 2019

New way to look for dark matter will help researchers search for one of the strongest dark matter candidates in areas th...

Pressure Runs High at Edge of Solar System

October 11, 2019

This pressure was recently measured by scientists in totality for the first time—and it was found to be greater th...

Not Long Ago, the Center of the Milky Way Exploded

October 9, 2019

Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light year...

New 'Fuzzy' Dark Matter Research Disrupts Conventional Thinking

October 4, 2019

'Fuzzy' dark matter theory simulated fully for the first time

Record-Breaking Observations Find Most Remote Protocluster of Galaxies

October 2, 2019

The discovery suggests that a large structure such as a protocluster already existed at a time when the universe was only abo...

New Model Proposes Jets Go Superluminal in Gamma-Ray Bursts

September 25, 2019

Recent study indicates that blasts that create gamma-ray bursts may actually exceed the speed of light in surrounding ga...

Artificial Intelligence Probes Dark Matter in the Universe

September 18, 2019

Scientists aim to improve on standard methods for estimating the dark matter content of the universe through artificial ...

Towering Balloon-Like Features Discovered near Center of the Milky Way

September 12, 2019

Features are likely the result of a phenomenally energetic burst that erupted near the Milky Way's supermassive black ho...

Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires

September 11, 2019

In 2019, wildfires have already burned 2.5 million acres in Alaska in an extreme fire season driven by high temperatures, whi...

Closing in on Elusive Particles

September 9, 2019

Major steps forward in understanding neutrino properties

Astronomers Determine Earth's Fingerprint

August 29, 2019

Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprint in hopes of finding habitable planets beyond the Solar System

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