[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – The newly designed supermassive black hole is a nameless beast, at least not official. And what happens next could be confusing on the cosmic level. The team of astronomers who created the black hole image called M87 (asterisk). (The asterisk is silent.) A language teacher gave him the name of a … Read more
[ad_1] By Tony Rice, WRAL contributor The first image of a black hole in the center of the Messier 87 Galaxy published this week is amazing. The technology developed to create it is just as incredible. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project brought together a network of 10 telescopes around the world and, as project … Read more
[ad_1] A model of the SLS rocket exhibited at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Alan Campbell, Project Manager for Space Systems at the famous Draper Lab, who built the computer that led astronauts to the Moon 50 years ago, is waiting for news from NASA. His … Read more
[ad_1] Proxima b, TRAPPIST-1e, Ross-128b and LHS-1140b – the potentially livable outermost planets – revolve around a different type of star from our Sun: M-type stars (red dwarfs) . Such stars can blaze frequently, bombarding planets with biologically harmful ultraviolet (UV) light, exposing their atmosphere to erosion risk and challenging the habitability of these worlds. … Read more
[ad_1] Warm fusion Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab said they have found a new way to start nuclear fusion reactions. The new technique described in the research published last month in the journal Physics of plasmas, provides the reactors with an alternative way of converting gas into superhot plasma that allows fusion reactions … Read more
[ad_1] According to a fairly well-known statistic, the average age at which a scientist wins the Nobel Prize is 59 years. A new analysis, however, focused on the age at which Nobel laureates actually perform the research that earned them the prize. Rasmus Bjørk, a researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, used biographical information … Read more
[ad_1] There was an explosion of symbolism in human culture during the Paleolithic period. Throughout the world, examples of rock art, some of them rather strange, began to multiply more than 35,000 years ago. But some places have been more willing than others to share their prehistoric artwork. The Balkans are a place where Paleolithic … Read more
[ad_1] Localization of NIPSNAP1 both inside (red) and on the surface (green) mitochondria. Credit: Anne Simonsen When mitochondria are damaged, they avoid causing other problems by signaling cellular proteins to degrade them. In a newspaper published on April 11, 2019, in the journal Developmental cellNorwegian scientists report having discovered how cells trigger this process, called … Read more
[ad_1] The first black hole photographed by humanity that caught the world's attention this week was officially dubbed "Powehi". The name comes from the University of Hawaii and the language teacher Larry Kimura, according to a school press release. For those who wonder why this honor went to the University of Hawaii, the state houses … Read more
[ad_1] NASA awarded SpaceX a $ 69 million contract to redirect an asteroid out of its intended path. The mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), uses a technique called kinetic impactor. It involves sending one or more spacecraft at high speed in the path of an object close to the Earth – in … Read more