02 September 2020
Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries
... mass of the larger black hole in the pair puts it into the range where it's unexpected from regular astrophysics processes," said Peter Shawhan, a professor of physics at UMD, an LSC principal investigator and the LSC observational science...
24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
... member Jongho Park, an East Asian Core Observatories Association Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taipei. This research was presented in two papers by the EHT collaboration published today in The...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
...Forbes at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics and lead author of the study published this...,” adds Douglas N. C. Lin, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and one of three team members involved ...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
...”. The ‘tour’ comprises seven chapters covering astronomy and astrophysics from the “early cosmic maps”, via black holes and... led eventually to MIT, Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in astrophysics. Recognising that there are many books that tell the history ...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
...seen orbiting a 70-solar-mass black hole, every 79 days. The discovery of LB-1 fits nicely with another breakthrough in astrophysics. Recently, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo gravitational wave detectors have...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... ever found orbiting a single star - and determining their masses and densities. In 2016, following a review of operating astrophysics missions,NASA made a decision to close out the Spitzer mission in 2018 in anticipation of the launch of the James...
