Milky Way’s largest stellar black hole also second-closest to Earth, scientists discover

Gaia BH3 is 2,000 light years away from Earth

James Webb Telescope spots oldest ‘dead galaxy’ that stopped forming stars 13 billion years ago: Study

The researchers, however, do not rule out the possibility of the dead galaxy roaring back to life

New clues in the search for the oldest galaxies in the universe

Galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 poses a mystery scientiststs are trying to resolve

This is how hot stars evolve in Globular Clusters in the Milky Way

AstroSat unravels the nature of the special kinds of stars

Indian astronomers make surprise discovery of 25 'giant radio galaxies'

A radio galaxy is a strong source of electromagnetic radiation or radio waves

Are we about to see a rare green comet light up the sky? An expert on what to expect from Nishimura

Nishimura would swing closer to the Sun than the orbit of Mercury this month

How scientists solved a centuries-old mystery

UK scientists discovered a rare form of star collision

Missing gamma ray puzzle solved

The sources of highly energetic cosmic rays were a mystery until recently

Wormholes may be lurking in the universe — and new studies are proposing ways of finding them

Nature may have found a way to create wormholes to keep the universe from expanding

Study disproves Hawking, shows tiny black holes may not account for Dark Matter

For a whole night, the research team took 190 consecutive images of Andromeda galaxy

Galaxy caught in self-destructive mode

Finding throws new light on the evolution and ageing of galaxies

Brightest, most distant radio signal detected till now has a rare source — a group of merging galaxies

A fast radio burst that occurred when the universe was just 5 billion years old was detected in 2022

Scientists discover oldest known solar system

The system contains Earth-sized planets that orbit a star smaller than the sun

How 535 new fast radio bursts can help answer deep questions about the universe

Every newly captured event is allowing astrophysicists to learn more about weird cosmic phenomena; some astronomers have begun to use fast radio …

Astronomers find extremely aged remnant of galaxies that influence universe’s evolution

A team of Indian astronomers from Pune claimed the remnants belonged to galaxies formed 260 million years ago, a record in itself  

Study gains new insights into the evolution of galaxies

It has shown that even a relatively weak jet from a supermassive black hole can clear the nuclear region of the galaxy of its gas, indicating …

Our expertise and observations complemented those from Europe: Gopakumar Achamveedu

Down To Earth speaks to Gopakumar Achamveedu from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, who is part of the international team of …

First ever view of the Milky Way seen through the lens of neutrino particles

It’s the first time we have seen our galaxy “painted” with a particle, rather than in different wavelengths of light

‘WTF?’: Newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited

WTF? is a picture of a ghostly circle of radio emission, hanging out in space like a cosmic smoke-ring. It had not been seen before, and …

2022 too short, too far: 5 times James Webb grabbed eyeballs

Telescope helped us understand how stars are born and unfolded Mars’ and Neptune’s secrets

NASA offers insight on supernova that may have been alluded to in ‘Hamlet’

450-year-old supernova’s shockwave still apparent; was visible to humans on Earth in 1572  

In a galaxy far, far away... the story of black holes in pics

Here is a primer on black holes, about which Albert Einstein had predicted and which we can now observe in real terms

First galaxy sans dark matter challenges longstanding belief about universe

DF2 was expected to have about 100 times more dark matter than regular matter. Instead, researchers found almost none

5 twinkling galaxies help us uncover the mystery of the Milky Way’s missing matter

But about half of matter in our galaxy is too dark to be detected. It takes the form of cold, dark clumps of gas, in which lies Milky Way’s&…

In a different light

Here’s what Stanford University research papers, focusing on areas ranging from supermassive black holes to the intricacies of the human brain, …