The jets were discovered among 10,000 others in a survey by Europe's Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope. By studying the tendrils of these colossal outflows, scientists hope to understand how they shaped the early cosmos into the form we see today. The researchers published the...
The new mystery hidden inside the Universe's biggest ever black hole Black holes are big. Very big. But physics makes it almost impossible for them to grow. Here’s how one black hole defied the odds to swell to gargantuan proportions....
So far this year, Russia has discovered nearly 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (Bboe) thanks to the Dinkov and Nyarmeyskoye finds on the Yamal peninsula shelf in the Kara Sea. In natural gas terms, that’s a whopping 17 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). But this is gas for Gazprom....
“The Ophiuchus galaxy cluster exhibits a curious concave gas density discontinuity at the edge of its cool core,” the researchers write in an abstract describing their work. “It was discovered in the Chandra X-ray image by Werner and collaborators, who considered a possibility of it being a...
The popular names of the 1980s can easily be discovered based on the celebrities who were born in this decade and reached immense fame in the early 2000's. There's Jessica (Simpson), Amanda (Bynes), Nicole (Richie), and of course, Ashley (Tisdale, Olsen, take your pick). But like ...
With a capacity of 23,992 TEUs, Ever ACE vessel is one of the world’s largest container ships. It set sail on her maiden voyage in July 2021. This 399.9-meter-long giant has 24 rows of side-by-side containers having a massive breadth of 61.5 meters. Samsung Heavy Industries in South...
Astronomers have seen a distant galaxy that blasts away material with two trillion times the energy the sun emits — the biggest such eruption ever seen. That ejection of matter could answer an important question about the universe: why are the black holes in the centers of galaxies so light?
(a petabyte is 1015bytes or one million gigabytes), making it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released. The amount of imaging data is equivalent to two billion selfies, or 30,000 times the total text content of Wikipedia. The catalog data is 15 times the volume of the ...
Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies, of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. It was first spotted in 1877 in France and is the most studied of all the compact galaxy groups. The study suggests there might be more larg...
"Only one pregnant whale shark had ever been found, and she had 300 young inside her," Dr. Meekan said. "That's a remarkable number, most sharks would only have somewhere between two and a dozen. "So these giant females are probably getting big because of the need to carry a whole ...