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Report: 'Urgent' change needed to tackle bullying in astronomy and geophysics
Phys.org· 4 days ago"Urgent" action is needed to address an "insidious" and systemic bullying problem within the world of astronomy and geophysics, a report warns. The Royal Astronomical ...
Webb Space Telescope uncovers earliest known merger of black holes
The Columbian· 24 hours agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years after the
Einstein proven right on black holes' "plunging regions"
Newsweek· 5 days agoThis was discovered using X-ray data collected from several nearby black holes by NASA's NuSTAR and...
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as Einstein predicted
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“But now that we do, we couldn’t explain it any other way.” It’s not the first time that black holes...
Some of the Oldest Stars Were Just Found in Our Own Galaxy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSome stars in our very own Milky Way are some of the earliest ever seen, according to...
Scientists discover bizarre region around black holes that proves Einstein right yet again
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEinstein's general theory of relativity predicted that so-called 'plunging regions' around black...
Astronomers reveal universe's oldest stars hiding in our galaxy
Newsweek· 6 days agoThe heavenly bodies were detected by MIT researchers in the "halo" of stars that surrounds the...
Study Confirms Einstein Prediction: Black Holes Have a 'Plunging Region' - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days ago"We've been ignoring this region, because we didn't have the data," said research scientist Andrew Mummery, lead author of the study published Thursday in the journal Monthly Notices of the ...
Universe's oldest known stars found in Milky Way's 'halo'
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThey are in our own galactic neighborhood inside the Milky Way’s “halo,” according to a study...
James Webb telescope spots 2 monster black holes merging at the dawn of time, challenging our...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNew observations with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the most distant pair of merging black...