A Challenge to Our View of How Stars Die
For the first time ever, we’ve been able to watch the complete metamorphosis of an unusual explosion from one type of supernova to another — challenging our understanding of the deaths of massive stars.
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ALMA Explores How Supermassive Black Holes Talk to Their Galaxies
How do supermassive black holes and their host galaxies evolve in tandem? Observations from ALMA have revealed new clues about how the two might communicate.
A Planet Soon to Meet Its Demise
A tiny telescope has discovered a scalding hot world. KELT-16b may only be around for a few more hundreds of thousands of years, however.
Revisiting Black Holes as Dark Matter
Could dark matter be made of intermediate-mass black holes formed in the beginning of the universe? A recent study takes a renewed look at this question.
Fixing the Big Bang Theory’s Lithium Problem
Scientists may have solved a decades-old puzzle about the formation of our universe.
New Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies in Clusters
A new study reveals a set of extremely compact and dense galaxies in distant galaxy clusters.
Simulations of Solar Jets
How do jets emitted from the Sun’s surface contribute to its corona and to the solar wind?
Climate of an Earth-Like World with Changing Eccentricity
Having a giant planet like Jupiter next door can really wreak havoc on your orbit! What might such a bad neighbor mean for the long-term climate of an Earth-like planet?
Resolving the Birth of High-Mass Binary Stars
For the first time, scientists have imaged a very young, high-mass binary system and resolved the individual disks that surround each star and the circumbinary disk surrounding the pair.
A Quasar Turns On
A quasar has been caught in the act of rapidly switching on. What caused the sudden transition?