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The Dragonfly telescope is undergoing a metamorphosis. For the past decade, the Dragonfly Telephoto Array has conducted groundbreaking science by detecting faint starlight within dimly lit parts of the night sky. The telescope uses clusters of telephoto lenses to create images, much the way a dragonfly's eyes gather visual data. Now Dragonfly is setting its sights on extragalactic gas.
Mar 10th, 2022
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New modelling work provides deep insight into how an Earth-like planet orbiting the Sun-like stars closest to us, the ? Centauri A/B binary, would look like, should it exist.
Mar 10th, 2022
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Experiments point the way to solving mystery that keeps clusters hot.
Mar 9th, 2022
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Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution involves a chaotic triple drama inside a giant disk of gas around a super massive black hole in a galaxy far, far away.
Mar 9th, 2022
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Scientists show how gravity emerges from a special quantum mechanical system, in a simplified model for quantum gravity called the 'holographic principle'.
Mar 9th, 2022
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Astronomers have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. With nine atoms, this is the largest molecule identified in such a disc to date. It is also a precursor of larger organic molecules that can lead to the emergence of life.
Mar 8th, 2022
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A mathematical analysis helps illuminate the puzzle over how information escapes from a black hole.
Mar 8th, 2022
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In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy. New research suggests the bubbles are a result of a powerful jet of activity from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Mar 7th, 2022
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Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star whilst it consumes matter from a nearby star. The discovery provides new insight into the behaviours of some of the most extreme objects in the universe.
Mar 2nd, 2022
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New study challenges long-held assumptions about the structure of the Sun's atmosphere.
Mar 2nd, 2022
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Scientists report that there is no black hole in HR 6819, which is instead a 'vampire' two-star system in a rare and short-lived stage of its evolution.
Mar 2nd, 2022
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Discovery could have revolutionary implications for how we think about the dynamics of exoplanet interiors.
Mar 1st, 2022
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The shape of galaxies and how they evolve depend on a web of cosmological filaments that run across the Universe. According to a recent study, this cosmic web plays a much bigger role than previously thought.
Feb 26th, 2022
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Researchers created a new way to measure the physical properties of galactic ionized gas, and discovered the acceleration of quasar outflows at the scale of tens of parsecs for the first time.
Feb 25th, 2022
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Researchers found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than 40 degrees relative to the axis of stellar orbit. The finding challenges current theoretical models of black hole formation.
Feb 25th, 2022
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A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System's history could help scientists reconstruct how and when planets were born.
Feb 24th, 2022
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Study proves ground-based telescopes can search for planets with two suns.
Feb 23rd, 2022
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Astronomers find evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date.
Feb 23rd, 2022
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