WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black ...
Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC 19529–4430. It turned out that ...
Using the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), astronomers from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, have observed a young Galactic open cluster known as Berkeley 50. Results of the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two large stars residing inside a spectacular cloud of gas and dust nicknamed the "Dragon's Egg" nebula have presented a puzzle to astronomers. One of them has a magnetic ...
Studying these pulses, which can also come from mergers of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers ... will orbit around each other, creeping ...
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found infrared emission from methane coming from W1935. This is an unexpected discovery because the brown dwarf is cold and lacks a host star ...
That can make black holes tough to identify, but astronomers have just spotted a ... There is a great deal of uncertainty around how large (but not supermassive) black holes can form.
As one UAE public holiday draws to a close, the predicted start date for Eid Al Adha has been revealed by astronomers. According to the Emirates Astronomy Society, the Day of Arafat will fall on ...
Comets are huge frozen snowballs made of dust and ice that orbit around the sun ... bright comet approaching the Sun in the Kreutz orbit Astronomers have been witnessing comets for years, the ...
The average mass of known black holes of stellar origin in our galaxy is around 10 times the mass ... will be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Named Gaia BH3, it has a mass that is nearly 33 times that of our sun, and it’s located 1,926 light-years away in the Aquila constellation, making it the second-closest known black hole to Earth.
But thanks to a little bit of serendipity, European astronomers were able to locate the stellar black hole just 2,000 light years from Earth. Scientists wading through data from the European Space ...