25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
...of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe and it was gravitational waves produced by two colliding black holes nearly 1.3 billion light years away that were detected by members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). Established...
23 January 2017
New results from HST show relativistic jets on scales rarely seen before
....” Superluminal refers to the apparently faster-than-light motion seen in some radio galaxies and sources containing a black hole. However, it is not truly known if these apparent velocities greater than the speed of light are optical illusions...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
..., such as gamma-ray bursts, that can generally be attributed to accretion processes onto objects such as neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs. Nonetheless there are still a number of emerging classes of exotic X-ray transients whose nature...
03 April 2018
Astronomers unexpectedly find the most distant star ever discovered
... of the galaxy cluster. We know that the microlensing was caused by either a star, a neutron star, or a stellar-mass black hole,” explains Steven Rodney from the University of South Carolina, USA and a co-author of this research. Those latter...
07 April 2021
Astronomers find a rare pair of double quasars in the early Universe
...well as a crucial insight into galaxy mergers in the early Universe. Lighting up the way to the heart of a feeding black hole is an accretion disk so bright, its luminosity is enough to outshine the light emitted from entire galaxies. Known as active...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... parties to cooperate. In space, stars with a mass higher than the Chandrasekhar limit collapse into themselves to become black holes of intense gravity from which even light cannot escape. Cooperation keeps nations beyond the Chandrasekhar limits...
