New Study Suggests Black Holes Accelerated Birth of Stars in Early Universe

A recent study suggests that black holes may have contributed to accelerating the birth of new stars during the first 50 million years of the universe Illustration of the magnetic field generated by a supermassive black hole in the early universeILLUSTRATION BY ROBERTO MOLAR CANDANOSA / JHU Enlarge image Astronomers believe that black holes formed … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope Launches on Christmas Day: A Historic Milestone in Space Exploration

James Webb Space Telescope Launches on Christmas Day: A Historic Milestone in Space Exploration

It was 20 minutes after noon in Portugal when, on Christmas Day, December 25, 2021, a French-made Ariane 5 rocket took off from the Kourou Space Center, in French Guiana. Breaking through the clouds in the north of the South American continent, Ariane carried at its tip one of the most anticipated and ambitious space … Read more

An ultra-powerful cosmic ray of “divine particles” fell to Earth, and no one knows the origin

An ultra-powerful cosmic ray of “divine particles” fell to Earth, and no one knows the origin

Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige Illustration of cosmic rays hitting gas molecules in Earth’s atmosphere. By tracing these particles to their source, researchers can estimate how powerful the original cosmic ray was. One of the most powerful cosmic rays ever has been detected, coming from a “void in the universe” that continues to intrigue … Read more

Unraveling the Secrets of the Cosmic Web in Intergalactic Space

Unraveling the Secrets of the Cosmic Web in Intergalactic Space

Long filaments of hydrogen are found in intergalactic space and are the key to unraveling how the universe came to be. Although there are vast distances between objects in space, they are not isolated islands in a sea of ​​darkness. Available models of the universe suggest that there is a vast network of dark matter … Read more

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts: What We Know and What We Don’t

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts: What We Know and What We Don’t

These bright powerful streams of energy remain largely a mystery to astronomers, but something is still known about them. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are strong radio pulses that carry as much energy as the Sun emits in three days. But FRBs radiate this energy in just a fraction of a second. What is known and … Read more

“First Loophole-Free Bell Experiment Confirms True Quantum Correlations”

Nature highlight May 11, 2023 Nature 6177960 The Bell inequality has helped shed light on the structure of correlations allowed by quantum mechanics and what this theory of physics says about the world. Experimental verification of the Bell inequality is also of practical importance, as it allows confirmation of the existence of true quantum correlations … Read more

The James Webb telescope captures the enchanting view of the Orion Nebula in greater detail

BOYS AREA – Space Telescope James Webb managed to capture the dazzling image inside Orion Nebula with more detail and sharpness. It gives an idea of ​​how the stars and planetary systems are located within Milky Way galaxy formed more than 4.5 billion years ago. “We were blown away by the dazzling image of Orion … Read more

2000 several years back, Betelgeuse was nevertheless orange

As stars age, their brightness, dimension, and shade also modify, depending on the stage of fusion that takes place in them, and astrophysicists can also deduce the star’s age and mass from its external attributes. In the situation of huge stars with a mass various instances larger than the Sunshine, the evolutionary variations of the … Read more

“Webb will allow us to see parts of the Universe that humanity has never seen” | Interview

Catarina Alves de Oliveira is a Portuguese astrophysicist and is responsible for calibrating one of the instruments of the James Webb space telescope. During the telescope tests, an image does not come out of his head and he even went to work earlier just to see what was going on in a room next to … Read more

The hunt for gravitational waves is entering a new phase

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has published the largest catalog of black hole and neutron star fusions to date. From the gravitational waves resulting from such events, members of the international research collaboration, including Hungarian researchers, observed 35 new gravitational waves in the recent observation period. This has already increased the number of detected gravitational wave signals … Read more