Astrophysical Journal

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  NASA's Hubble and Chandra Telescopes Spot Strange Tilted Black Hole

  NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes have uncovered a bizarre sideways black hole in the galaxy NGC 5084, located 80 million light-years away. The black hole’s unexpected tilt suggests it may have been influenced by a violent galactic collision. A new image processing technique, SAUNAS, revealed X-ray plumes in the galaxy, hinting at a cosmic e...

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  Hubble and Chandra Telescopes Spot Strange Tilted Black Hole in Galaxy NGC 5084

  NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes have uncovered a bizarre sideways black hole in the galaxy NGC 5084, located 80 million light-years away. The black hole’s unexpected tilt suggests it may have been influenced by a violent galactic collision. A new image processing technique, SAUNAS, revealed X-ray plumes in the galaxy, hinting at a cosmic e...

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  Study Explores Sun’s Magnetic Field Changes and Solar Wind Acceleration

  A study published in The Astrophysical Journal has shed light on how the Sun’s magnetic field influences solar wind acceleration. Using data from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, researchers observed that sharp magnetic switchbacks smooth out into gentler waves as they travel further from the Sun. This relaxation process transfers magnet...

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  Aditya-L1 Records Coronal Mass Ejection, Reveals New Details on Solar Plasma Movement and Magnetic Activity

  Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, observed a Coronal Mass Ejection on July 16, 2024. Researchers found that the event caused significant coronal dimming, increased turbulence, and solar plasma deflection due to magnetic fields. These insights, derived from VELC measurements, deepen our understanding of solar activity and its space weather i...

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  NASA's Hubble Telescope Detects Water Vapour In Small Exoplanet's Atmosphere

  The findings of the study appeared in a report published on Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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  Elusive Dark Galaxy Revealed By ALMA Telescope Observations: Report

  This month, The Astrophysical Journal published a study on a "very unusual" galaxy conducted by a team of researchers at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Sissa) in Italy.

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  Buckminsterfullerene Species Likely the Source of Unidentified Infrared Emission

  In a new study, researchers have applied the first principle of quantum chemical calculations to predict the mid-infrared signatures of the ionised forms of fullerene. The team has noted that some positively charged fullerenes have strong emission bands that substantially match with the position of key astronomical UIE emission features at 11.21, 1...

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  Study Explains Blinking Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Falling Stardust, Unsteady Jets

  Astrophysicists have developed the first 3D simulation of the entire evolution of a jet from its birth by a rotating black hole to its emission far from the collapsing star. Simulation explains that as the star collapses, its material falls on the disk that swirls around the black hole. This falling material tilts the disk, and, in turn, tilts the ...

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  Astronomers May Have Discovered a Black Hole Candidate Through Gravitational Microlensing

  A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, has discovered what appears to be a free-floating black hole for the first time using gravitational microlensing. The unseen compact object's mass is estimated to be between 1.6 and 4.4 times that of the Sun, according to the astronomers.

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  Hubble Space Telescope Captures World’s Largest Near-Infrared Image to Locate Universe’s Most Distant Galaxies

  An international team of scientists has released the Hubble Space Telescope's largest near-infrared image ever. The latest find will allow astronomers to map the universe's star-forming regions and learn how the oldest, most distant galaxies formed.

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  Astronomers Discover Hidden Trove of Massive Black Holes, Can Help Understand the Milky Way’s Origin

  A group of researchers has found a previously overlooked trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies. These black holes, the researchers believe, can offer insights into the journey of the supermassive black hole that sits at the centre of the Milky Way.

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  Study Throws Light on Milky Way's Most Recent Major Collision

  Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) have detailed the last major merger of the Milky Way in a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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  First Images of 'Cosmic Web' Reveal Maze of Dwarf Galaxies

  Scientists in France have for the first time seen the incandescent filaments of hydrogen gas known as the "cosmic web”. Eight months of observation with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and a year of data crunching revealed the filaments as they existed only one to two billion years after the Big Bang.

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  Astronomers Spot Unusual Star Forming Like a Planet

  A faint object, MM 1b, was detected just beyond the disc in orbit around MM 1a, according to the study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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  Liquid Water Found On Mars: Underground Lake Discovery Makes Waves

  Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars' south pole, scientists have detected a 12-mile-wide span of briny water, a large, stable reservoir akin to lakes buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth.