A Supermassive Black Hole with a Case of the Hiccups
Updated: 2024-03-31 02:03:52
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
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Animation of Queqiao-2 satellite establishing orbit around the Moon . Credit : CGTN Posted on March 30, 2024 March 30, 2024 by Matt Williams China's Relay Satellite is in Lunar Orbit On March 20th , China’s Queqiao-2 Magpie Bridge-2” satellite launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site LC-2 on the island of Hainan in southern China atop a Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket . This mission is the second in a series of communications relay and radio astronomy satellites designed to support the fourth phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program Chang’e On March 24th , after 119 hours in transit , the satellite reached the Moon and began a perilune braking maneuver at a distance
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a star-forming region containing massive , young , blue stars in 30 Doradus , the Tarantula Nebula . Located within the Large Magellanic Cloud , this is one of the regions observed by a newly-completed survey named ULLYSES . Image Credit : NASA , ESA , STScI , Francesco Paresce INAF-IASF Bologna Robert O'Connell UVA SOC-WFC3, ESO Posted on March 30, 2024 March 30, 2024 by Evan Gough The Hubble Aims Its Powerful Ultraviolet Eye at Super-Hot Stars Some stars are so massive and so energetic that they’re a million times brighter than the Sun . This type of star dominated the early Universe , playing a key role in its development and
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in A breakdown of the Mars Astrobiology , Resource , and Science Explorers MARSE mission profile and its Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device SHIELD system , which could revolutionize how we search for life on Mars by using four rovers at four different landing sites . Credit : Longo 2024 Posted on March 29, 2024 March 30, 2024 by Laurence Tognetti Search for Life on Mars Could Level-Up with MARSE Mission Concept A recent study presented at the 55 th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference LPSC discusses the Mars Astrobiology , Resource , and Science Explorers MARSE mission concept and its Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device SHIELD which offers a broader and
, 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
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in A composite image taken with the Liverpool Telescope showing the location of SN 2023ixf , a red supergiant supernova the most blue object in the rectangle that occurred 22 million light-years from Earth in the Pinwheel Galaxy . Credit : E . Zimmerman et al . Weizmann Institute of Science Liverpool . Telescope Posted on March 29, 2024 March 29, 2024 by Scott Alan Johnston Astronomers Catch a Supernova Explode Almost in Realtime Catching a supernova in action is tricky business . There is no way to predict them , and they donâ t occur very often . Within the Milky Way they only occur about once a century , and the last one was observed in 1604. Of course , supernovae occur in