Astronomers have caught a rare event, a black hole biting a chunk from an object – either a small star or a big planet – that strayed too close. The feeding happened in galaxy NGC 4845, 47 million light-years away, and was witnessed by ESA’s Integral space observatory and other star-watching stations. A sudden bright [...]
An image of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center in the night sky above Paranal Observatory (Image from wiki.org) Stars called red dwarfs may support planets on which life is possible. With three quarters of stars in the Milky Way being red dwarfs, there may be 4.5 billion habitable planets in our galaxy, a new [...]
From neutron stars to multiple dimensions, here are 10 facts about the universe that might make your brain hurt.
20 August 2012 — The first evidence of a planet’s destruction by its aging star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The evidence indicates that the missing planet was devoured as the star began expanding into a “red giant” — the stellar equivalent of advanced age. “A similar fate may await the [...]
