This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole, surrounded by an accretion disk. Image credit: Hubble / NASA / ESA / M. Kornmesser. According to space experts, there is a possibility of the existence of intermediate-mass black holes. These are black holes that can consume some of the stray...
Galaxy NGC 547. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Blakeslee (NOIRLab - (AZ)), and W. Sparks (SETI Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America). In the constellation Cetus, located about 250 million light-years from Earth, sits the elliptical galaxy NGC 547. This galaxy is the subject of a stunning image the NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured....
This system consists of a pair of galaxies, dubbed IC 694 and NGC 3690, which made a close pass some 700 million years ago. As a result of this interaction, the system underwent a fierce burst of star formation. In the last fifteen years or so six supernovae have popped off in the outer...
Jupiter's moons,also called Europa, have thrilling red streaks all over it´s surface. Scientists believe it's a frozen blend of water and salts, (like salty ice). Its chemical mark is unknown considering that it has no recognized substance on earth. Researchers discovered two new crystals made from water and table salt at low temperatures, below about...
A panel of experts thinks that Nasa should send a spacecraft to Uranus Credito: NASA Kathleen Mandt Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins College's Applied Physics Research laboratory. In her Perspectives piece published in the journal Science, Kathleen Mandt highlights the scientific value of a dedicated Uranus probe. Uranus, one of the...
A new metric called Time to Edit (TTE) has been developed by a translation firm to measure the time it takes for expert human editors to correct AI-generated translations in comparison to human translations. This metric could help us determine how close we are to reaching technological singularity, potentially even before the end of...
Rescuers search the rubble in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on the border with Türkiye, 6 February 2022. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images) A huge quake has happened in the southeast of Türkiye, close to the border with Syria. Data from seismometers that gauge the trembling of the ground triggered by...
Microscopic image of nanowires. Credit: Dr Takao Yasui At Nagoya University in Japan, researchers have used a new device to spot an essential membrane protein in the urine, indicating whether the patient has a brain tumors. This protein could be utilized to spot brain cancer, preventing the need for invasive tests and enhancing the probability of...
Credit: Awareness Act. Last year, astronomers discovered Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, which had not been visible until then due to its distance from Earth. However, it is now approaching Earth, and soon it will be making its closest approach in 50,000 years. Astronomers have stated that this will be the only chance to see it...
Two interacting galaxies viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team A research study led by the College of Southampton has shown how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds that reach them by traveling hundreds of thousands of light yrs from one galaxy to another. A worldwide team of scientists has...
