Mystery Object in Deep Space Is Confounding Astronomers
The super-dense object doesn't quite fit with what we know about black holes or neutron stars.
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The super-dense object doesn't quite fit with what we know about black holes or neutron stars.
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008.
Two decades of Chandra Observatory data reveal the aftermath of the Eta Carinae stellar eruption of 1838.
A visualization of simulated data shows how ripples of spacetime might populate the Milky Way.
Calculations by a gravitational wave hunter suggest that the early universe was more developed than what we can observe.