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Unequal Neutron-Star Mergers Create Unique “Bang” in Simulations
In new models, looking at what happens when these two objects come together, it appears that the more massive neutron star will shred the smaller neutron star, causing light to be released
Early Mars Was Covered in Ice Sheets, Not Flowing Rivers
Maybe a lot of those rivers and valleys we see carved on Mars weren’t carved by rivers we’d recognize but were instead carved by rivers under glaciers such as we rarely get to see.
Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job
Galaxy cluster SpARCS1049 is out there forming 900 some odd stars per year out of the gas and dust between galaxies. This is not normal.
Machine Learning Finds a Surprising Early Galaxy
A new paper describes a new, ultra metal-poor galaxy discovered by the research team’s neural network.
Rock Stars — Scientists Find Two Meteorites in Two Weeks
Researchers from Curtin University recently went through images, headed out, and were able to recover debris from two separate meteor falls, one freshly observed and the other from November 2019.
ALMA Finds Possible Sign of Neutron Star in Supernova 1987A
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have, for the first time, detected hints of a neutron star in the heart of the supernova 1987a remnant.
Astrophysicists Observe Long-Theorized Quantum Phenomena
In a new paper, researchers describe how they used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Gaia to detail out the observed parameters of more than 3000 stars to get at their radii through a trick of relativity.
Cosmic Tango Between the Very Small and the Very Large
In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, a team is able to explain both the large-scale power spectrum’s anomaly at low values and the anomaly in lensing amplitude that shows inconsistency with Lambda-Cold Dark Matter cosmologies.
Scientists Find Remnant of Strange Dismembered Star Cluster at Galaxy’s Edge
A new paper in Nature describes a newly discovered star stream found by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey.
