Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then “burping” — not once, but twice.
Daily Archives: January 11, 2018
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An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and amplified by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
A new analysis of about 10,000 normal Sun-like stars in the Milky Way’s bulge reveals that our galaxy’s hub is a dynamic environment of variously aged stars zipping around at different speeds.
One of the most memorable moments of CES 2018. Tyler Lizenby/CNET On today’s podcast, we talk about: An hours-long electricity outage at the world’s largest tech show. Big robots. A play-focused smartwatch for kids called Wanderwatch that encourages them to put down their screens and play outside. Now Playing: Watch this: #CESBlackout, […]
The centrist promised shortly after his landslide election in May to speed up the asylum process, but later pledged to increase efforts to deport economic migrants. Far-left MP Éric Coquerel, of the leading opposition party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), told the French daily Le Figaro on Wednesday the asylum […]
A new study shows rings, arcs and spirals in disks around stars may not be caused by planets. They may self-generate.
Astronomers have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars in the Orion Nebula.
Dengue virus slowly takes over the endoplasmic reticulum, the production site for a subset of host proteins, and steers clear of the cytosol, the fluid-filled space where the majority of host cellular proteins are synthesized. Its viral RNA template is translated into protein in such an inefficient, lackadaisical manner that […]