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Scientists have discovered a large black hole that "hiccups", and emits gas fluxes. Analysis revealed that a small black hole repeatedly punctures the gas disk of the large black hole, causing the perturbations to be released. Strong magnetic fields, north and south of the black hole, shown by the orange cone, shoot the flux up and out of the disk. Each time the small black hole punctures the disk, it emits another star, in a regular periodic pattern. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT

Black hole "hiccuping" - astronomers are surprised by periodic eruptions in a distant galaxy

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In a distant galaxy, the supermassive black hole's intermittent gas fluxes led to the discovery of a smaller black hole in its orbit
Stars are born. Science site credit via DALEE. The image is for illustration only and should not be seen as a scientific image

The place where stars are born

In interstellar molecular clouds, large molecules can form despite the non-ideal conditions prevailing there
Photon Multiplier Tubes - A multiplier will detect flashes of energy produced when neutrinos interact with matter. Credit: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A huge facility in China will study the neutrino particles - mainly those generated from nuclear power plants

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The facility, named JUNO, consists of a huge tank that surrounds an array of detectors. The container contains a substance that causes a scintillation which is recorded in the detectors and thus allows to identify a neutrino event, its type and mass, since the neutrino particles change into different types upon their formation
AI PHYSIST Artificial intelligence that studies the laws of physics and develops new theories. Credit - The Knowledge Site, via DALEE

New artificial intelligence will open up new theories in physics

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Researchers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence capable of postulating physical theories by identifying patterns in complex data sets and after being fed all known physics
Artificial color JWST image of a small portion of the GOODS South field, with emphasis on JADES-GS-z7-01-QU. This type of galaxy is extremely rare. Credit: JADES Collaboration

Cosmic Time Runs Back: Webb Space Telescope Discovers 'Dead' Galaxy 13 Billion Years Old

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This galaxy experienced a tumultuous and fast life: the star formation process worked quickly and suddenly ended, a situation that is not expected at such an early stage in the evolution of the universe. It is still unclear whether the "frozen" state of the galaxy is temporary or permanent, and what is the reason for the cessation of the star formation process
The three-body problem. The figure was prepared with the help of DALEE artificial intelligence software for illustration purposes only and should not be considered a scientific image

A breakthrough in predicting chaotic results in the three body system

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New research from the Larkach Institute of Physics reveals a significant advance in chaos theory, by confirming in detail the flux-based statistical theory that predicts chaotic outcomes in non-hierarchical Newtonian three-body systems. This breakthrough has practical implications for fields such as celestial mechanics, astrophysics and particle dynamics.
An image of Jupiter taken by Juno in 2019, showing storm zones in the northern hemisphere. Credit: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Extrasolar Planet Hunter Targets Jupiter: A New Twist in the Space Exploration Plot

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For the first time, NASA activated a tool designed to discover planets many light years away on an object in the solar system, in a study of the winds of Jupiter
The galaxy AM 1054-325 has been warped from a normal pancake-like spiral shape into an S shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, as seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. As a result, new star clusters were formed along a tidal tail stretched over thousands of light years, resembling a string of pearls. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jayanne English (University of Manitoba)

Hubble discovers how collisions between galaxies create conditions for star formation

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The discovery of an S-shaped galaxy could revolutionize the understanding of the process of star formation
Merging galaxies create the most powerful radio burst ever discovered. The image was prepared using Dali (artificial intelligence) and should not be considered a scientific image

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals the origin of the most powerful radio burst ever recorded

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"Astronomers discover that the fastest radio burst ever observed came not from a single galaxy, but from a group of merging galaxies"
A multi-wavelength view of the surroundings of the supermassive black hole SgrA* (yellow X). In the red of the stars, in the blue of the dust. Many of the young stars are hidden by the dust or absorbed by the bright stars. Credit: Florian Peissker / University of Cologne

Stellar surprise: a fountain of youth at the center of our galaxy "should be impossible".

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Researchers have found that the star cluster IRS13 near the supermassive black hole SagittariusA* at the center of our galaxy is much younger than predicted
Prof. Zvi Piren. Photo: Noam Chai

For the first time, Israeli researchers will participate in a black hole and neutron star research group

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Professor Zvi Piren, the holder of the Schwartzman Chair at the Rakah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University and Professor Amir Levinson from Tel Aviv University will take part in a research group of the prestigious Simmons Foundation as part of an international cooperation in mathematics and physical sciences for the study of neutron stars and black holes
NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently passed through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe

Parker floated through a strong coronal mass ejection that "sucked" interplanetary dust

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"These interactions between the Sun's coronal mass ejections and interplanetary dust were theorized twenty years ago, but were not observed until the Parker Solar Probe saw that the coronal ejection acts like a vacuum cleaner, removing the dust from its orbit."
Optical image of the galaxy where the new event occurred, from PanSTARRS archive data. The x-ray itself is somewhere inside the white circle, and is about the size of a pinhead from 100 meters away. Also shown is the location of a two-year-old supernova. Credit: Daniele B. Malesani / PanSTARRS

Stellar feast: A ferocious black hole "drinks" the equivalent of three Earths from a star every time it passes

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A Sun-like star located in a galaxy roughly 500 million light-years away is being gradually devoured by a black hole, shedding a mass equal to three Earths on each close pass.
A massive magnetic helium star, on its way to becoming a magnetizer. Figure: ESO

A new type of star has been discovered: a massive magnetic helium star

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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory discovered that the star HD 45166 is a neutron star about to become a megastar
Different types of stars. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Hotter than the sun: an extremely hot brown dwarf has been discovered about 1,400 light years away from us

The brown dwarf is part of a new pair system that may advance our understanding of the evolution of stars and planets under extreme radiation conditions
Artist's impression of GRB 211211A. Credit: Soheb Mandhai @TheAstroPhoenix

Cosmic Gold Factory: A single kilonova produced very heavy elements in the amount of a thousand times the mass of Earth

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A highly unusual burst of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy is linked by scientists to a neutron star merger
Gravitational waves are created by a pair of stars turning into black holes. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Gravitational waves light up the universe

Gravitational wave analysis hints at the way black hole pairs are formed
The galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007 imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, combined with gravitational lensing images of the distant galaxy RXCJ0600-z6, 12.4 billion light-years away, observed by ALMA (shown in red). Due to the gravitational lensing effect of the galaxy cluster, the image of RXCJ0600-z6 has been intensified and magnified, appearing to be divided into three or more parts. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Fujimoto et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

Infant galaxy in the early universe discovered with the help of a "cosmic telescope"

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An illustration of the way the AI ​​classifies galaxies of different types based on their morphologies. Credit: NAOJ / HSC-SSP

Artificial intelligence has identified 80,000 spiral galaxies

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Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide-field images of the deep universe as taken by Japan's Subaru Telescope, achieving very high accuracy for detecting and classifying spiral galaxies in these images. This technique, combined with citizen scientists, is expected to yield more discoveries in the future
merging galaxies. Image: shutterstock

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way may have a friend

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Neil deGrasse Tyson with a model of the James Webb Space Telescope. Source: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth.

Dark energy - a chapter from the book "Astrophysics for those who don't have time" by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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A pattern of radio waves in the sky created by the combination of radiation from the first stars and the influence of dark matter. The blue regions are those where the dark matter has supercooled the normal matter. Source: Prof. Renan Barkana.

Israeli research has found the first tangible proof of the existence of dark matter in the universe

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Orion Nebula, from an innovative video released by the American Space Agency that combines the Hubble Space Telescope (visible light) and Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) images and provides a spectacular XNUMXD virtual view of the colorful nebula. Source: NASA.

NASA takes you on a virtual journey through the Orion Nebula

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The contours seen on the surface of the red giant π1 Gruis are heat convection cells, in which hot plasma moves up from the depths of the star, cools, and returns back inside. Despite the blur in the image, she breaks new ground in her ability to observe the star's disk from a distance of 530 light years, and for the first time identify this phenomenon directly on a star other than our sun. Source: ESO.

Astronomers discovered huge "bubbles" on the face of a red giant

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Neutron star merger - breakthrough of the year according to SCIENCE magazine

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