What Are Dark Matter and Dark Energy? There’s something amiss in the cosmos. Mysterious influences seem to be stretching the universe apart and clumping stuff...
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Artistâ s illustration of a small black hole orbiting a supermassive black hole , resulting in the former producing bursts of energy from the supermassive black holeâ s disk of gas and dust . Credit : Jose-Luis Olivares , MIT Posted on March 30, 2024 March 30, 2024 by Laurence Tognetti A Supermassive Black Hole with a Case of the Hiccups Can binary black holes , two black holes orbiting each other , influence their respective behaviors This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen international researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT investigated how a smaller black hole orbiting a
Scientists from Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Mainz in Germany, Sorbonne University in France, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)...
The researchers identified the origin of discrepancies in recent predictions of the muon’s magnetic moment. Their findings could contribute to the investigation of dark matter...
, Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Hidden in this deep sky image left is Uma3 U1, an ultra faint galaxy . It contains fewer than 100 hundred stars , a tiny amount for a galaxy . Credit : CFHT S . Gwyn right S . Smith left Posted on March 29, 2024 March 29, 2024 by Evan Gough The Milky Way’s Smallest , Faintest Satellite Galaxy Found The Milky Way has many satellite galaxies , most notably the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds They’re both visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere . Now astronomers have discovered another satellite that’s the smallest and dimmest one ever detected . It may also be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever found . The galaxy is called Ursa Major III
The light signature from GLASS-z12, one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen, suggests some of its stars have already exploded as supernovae
The black hole at the centre of our galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, has been captured in polarised light to reveal its magnetic field