Space & Exploration

Mysterious tiny black hole flashes like a strobe

Mysterious tiny black hole flashes like a strobe

An international team of astronomers filmed a small, flashing black hole in our Milky Way using unique, specialized high-speed cameras. The stellar black hole feeds on material from a nearby star and flashes hundreds of times per second. The researchers publish their findings in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

Astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in a habitable zone with water in its atmosphere

Astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in a habitable zone with water in its atmosphere

Astronomers discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of super-earth K2-18b, an exoplanet that is orbiting its host star in the habitable zone. According to scientists, k2-18b might potentially be the most habitable out of all exoplanets that have been discovered up until this day. The researchers published their findings in the science journal Nature Astronomy

Fascinating new study postulates that black holes might consist of dark energy!

Fascinating new study postulates that black holes might consist of dark energy!

Astrophysicists normally assume that huge systems like the universe, are indifferent to details of smaller systems contained within it. Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Kevin Croker and Joel Weiner) have shown that this hypothesis can fail when it comes to compact objects that remain after the collapse and explosion of huge stars.