10 Curiosities About the Historic Black Hole Photographs
Half a century ago, astronomers first hypothesized that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy….
Half a century ago, astronomers first hypothesized that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy….
What is the Event Horizon Telescope? The EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) is a global ultra-long baseline radio interferometer operating at…
Impact of the discovery of ‘Oumuamua The widespread interest in interstellar objects in the Solar System began with the discovery…
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher, considered together with Francis Bacon to be the founder of…
Not long ago, Netflix premiered the movie “Don’t Look Up,” kick-starting a global debate about a series of subjects, humankind’s addiction…
Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In…
An international team of astronomers presented new research focused on the generation of energy around black holes and predicted that…
One of the leading questions about aliens is what they will be like when we meet them. Of course, if…
Nothing in space is at rest. Everything moves and revolves – the Earth, the Sun, the Milky Way – and…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space in 1999 and has served a total of almost 22 years in…
This is the best of Hubble. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched one of its most successful missions since the…
The Universe is home to truly gigantic objects. Planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies – each of these can…
Andromeda is the closest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. Located in the constellation with the same name, it can…
Given the size of the universe, the odds are high that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere. Some scientists even estimate that…
Deep in the Brazilian state of Paraiba, there is a strange massive monument called the Inga or Pedra do Inga…
Yes, you read that correctly – scientists confirmed that a black hole is missing. And more curiously, not any black…
Usually, when astronomers talk about “neighboring galaxy“, they mean the Andromeda Galaxy, which is only 2.5 million light-years distant from…
For more than 150 years, people have not stopped trying to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. There is no definitive…
When it comes to astronomy roots, experts usually name the Sumerians, Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Chinese as the earliest astronomers. My…
The fact that the black holes do not allow the light to come out makes them difficult to observe. Scientists…
Of all the monuments in ancient Egypt, not is as imposing as the Great Sphinx of Giza. Carved out of…
Which is greater; the number of sand grains on Earth or stars in the sky? This is perhaps one of…