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ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

By ESO on May 6, 2020   Featured, Science/Education  

ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

  Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye PR Image eso2007a Artist’s impression of the triple system with the closest black hole A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to […]

Twin Baby Stars Grow Amongst a Twisting Network of Gas and Dust

By European Southern Observatory on Oct 4, 2019   Featured, Science/Education  

Twin Baby Stars Grow Amongst a Twisting Network of Gas and Dust

Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped network of filaments of gas and dust. Observing this remarkable phenomenon sheds new light on the earliest phases of the lives of stars and helps astronomers determine the conditions in which binary […]

ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang

By ESO on May 16, 2018   Science/Education  

ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang

Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to determine that star formation in the very distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1 started at an unexpectedly early stage, only 250 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery also represents the most distant oxygen ever detected in the Universe […]

Astronomers Detect Ancient Signal from First Stars in Universe

By National Science Foundation on Mar 5, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

Astronomers Detect Ancient Signal from First Stars in Universe

For the first time, astronomers have detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. Using a radio antenna not much larger than a refrigerator, the researchers discovered that ancient suns were active within 180 million years of the Big Bang. The astronomers, from Arizona State University (ASU), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) […]

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