Astronomers Find Actively Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 12.8 Billion Light-Years Away
A supermassive great void in the center of the radio quasar RACS J032021.44-352104.1 (RACS J0320-35 for brief) is growing at one of the fastest rates ever tape-recorded, according to an…
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Astronomers accidentally use rare ‘double zoom’ technique to view black hole’s corona in unprecedented detail
A stepping in galaxy bends and amplifies the light from the background quasar RX J1131, producing 4 unique images (displayed in pink). Tiny flickers in these images enabled astronomers, for…
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Astronomers Find Elusive Cloud-Forming Chemical on 10-Billion-Year-Old Brown Dwarf
Utilizing information collected by NSF’s Gemini South telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have actually identified signatures of methane (CH4water (H2O) and silane (SiH4gas on the cold…
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Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
Utilizing the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have actually straight imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared space of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2…
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Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Hierarchical Quadruple System
Called UPM J1040-3551 AabBab, the newly-discovered quadruple galaxy includes a set of cold brown overshadows and a set of young red overshadows. An artist’s impression of the UPM J1040-3551 system…
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Astronomers Confirm Fifth Exoplanet in L 98-59 System
Called L 98-59f, this world is a non-transiting super-Earth with a very little mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the little red…
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Astronomers Directly Image Betelgeuse’s Stellar Companion
Utilizing the speckle imager ‘Alopeke on the Gemini North telescope, one half of NSF’s International Gemini Observatory, astronomers have actually recorded direct pictures of Betelgeuse– the second-closest red supergiant to…
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Astronomers are racing to study our solar system’s newest ‘interstellar visitor.’ Here’s why.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will blaze through our planetary system for the remainder of the year before zooming away permanently. (Image credit: ESA/Las Cumbres Observatory ) The huge neighborhood is abuzz…
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Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen
Zoomed-in picture of the Sculptor galaxy, as seen by the Very Large Telescope. (Image credit: ESO/E. Congiu et al.) Astronomers have actually acquired a sensational brand-new picture of the Sculptor…
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Astronomers May Have Caught Still-Forming Gas Giant around RIK 113
Astronomers utilizing ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have actually caught incredible pictures of a remarkably structured planet-forming disk around the star RIK 113. This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large…
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