Author: Nas

Black holes are areas of space-time where gravity rules supreme: A black hole’s gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. They range in size from stellar-mass black holes, whose masses can range from five to 100 times that of the Sun, to supermassive black holes, whose masses can exceed a billion solar…

Archaeologists in Chile have unearthed the fossilized remains of a 13ft-long pregnant ichthyosaur from a melting glacier -marking the first time a complete ichthyosaur has been found in the country.​ The 139-million-year-old fossil was carefully collected by helicopter following an expedition in March and April this year by the University of Magallanes (UMAG) in the…

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope say there are two supermassive black holes that are likely to merge into one “monster” black hole—and not far from Earth. These black holes were observed in NGC 7727, a galaxy just 89 million light-years from the Milky Way. (Remember that the Alpha Centauri system is…

A massive burst of radiation was unleashed by an astral being three times an hour, lasting one minute each time, about 4,000 light-years from Earth. An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emission. Known magnetars rotate…

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Some members of the scientific community believe the ancient skull may belong to a mysterious but well-known ancestor, while others disagree. An international team of researchers who studied the skull determined it belonged to a newly discovered species that is more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals. The skull was reportedly found by a farmer in…

Using the ALMA radio telescope, dimethyl ether was detected in a planet-forming disc. It is the largest molecule ever found in these clumps of gas and dust. Studying planet formation Observing what lies within a circumstellar disc is critical to discovering important insights into the formation of planetary systems. This is exactly what happened to…

In other words, the study suggests black holes might actually burrow into a kind of multidimensional object called a brane, and give birth to an entirely new universe in another colossally big bang.