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The gas sucked in by the iconic supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 appears to be moving against the black hole's direction of rotation. This is shown by new computer simulations from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which includes researchers from Radboud University. Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has deepened our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*).

International research team measures extreme winds on an exoplanet An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered extremely strong winds on the exoplanet "WASP-127b". The winds along the equator of this planet can reach speeds of up to 33,000 kilometres per hour. These results help better understand the atmosphere of planets outside our solar system.

International research team measures extreme winds on an exoplanet . An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered extremely strong winds on the exoplanet "WASP-127b". The winds along the equator of this planet can reach speeds of up to 33,000 kilometers per hour. The results of the research help to better understand the atmosphere of planets outside our solar system.

McGill astronomers place FRB 20240209A in a region of space associated with a 'dead' galaxy, one that is no longer forming stars Astronomers studying the origins of enigmatic fast radio   bursts (FRBs) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could transform our understanding of the universe's most powerful and mysterious signals.

Study: How Much Information Can Be Extracted from Galaxy Clustering at the Field Level? (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett. Research led by the University of Michigan could help put cosmology on the inside track to reaching the full potential of telescopes and other instruments studying some of the universe's largest looming questions.

An international team led by Belgian scientists has recovered 115 Antarctic meteorites weighing more than 2 kg (in total) during the ongoing 2024-2025 BELgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE).

An international team of astrophysicists has imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show light being emitted from these millimetre-sized pebbles within the belts that orbit 74 nearby stars of a wide variety of ages - from those that are just emerging to those in more mature systems like our own Solar System.

Researchers from Göttingen in Germany shed new light on the formation of the Moon and origin of water on Earth A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth.

A UNIGE study shows that Hot Jupiters do not systematically eject their planetary neighbours during migration. This discovery overturns our perception of the architecture of planetary systems. Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, these planets were thought to accrete or eject any other planets present.

Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in the rock record. Wave ripples are small undulations in the sandy shores of lakebeds, created as wind-driven water laps back and forth. The two sets of ripples indicate the former presence of shallow water that was open to the Martian air, not covered by ice as some climate models would require.

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula - one of the night sky's most iconic celestial objects. The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886, but its intrinsic structure has been debated for as long as it has been observed.

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research. The study, led by scientists at Cardiff University, tests the idea that many of the black holes observed by astronomers have merged multiple times within densely populated environments containing millions of stars.

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all'elements except hydrogen and helium - including carbon, oxygen and iron - only exist because they were forged in stellar furnaces and later flung into the cosmos when their stars died. In an ultimate act of galactic recycling, planets like ours are formed by incorporating these star-built atoms into their makeup, be it the iron in Earth's core, the oxygen in its atmosphere or the carbon in the bodies of Earthlings.

McGill-led research team's findings point to neutron stars as the probable source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most perplexing phenomena   An international team of scientists led by McGill researchers has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) - enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves from space - originate from neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that have exploded in a supernova.

The fleeting cosmic firework likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere around a far-off neutron star. Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars and possibly black holes. These fleeting fireworks last for just a thousandth of a second and can carry an enormous amount of energy - enough to briefly outshine entire galaxies.

The missing ingredient for cooking up stars has been spotted for the first time by an international team led by astronomers at Imperial College. Much like a pressure cooker has a weight on top of its lid to keep the pressure in and get your festive dessert dense, moist and ready to eat, merging galaxies may need magnetic fields to create the ideal conditions for star formation.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this image of Vesta as it left the giant asteroid's orbit in 2012. The framing camera was looking down at the north pole, which is in the middle of the image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA" Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space.

A team of international scientists has unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The pioneering study explores the isotopic signatures of lunar water, revealing a mix of indigenous and cometary sources.

A binary star system at the center of the Milky Way provides new clues as to how stars form around the central black hole An international research team led by Florian Peißker has for the first time found a binary star in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sagittarus A* at the center of our galaxy.

The Moon is much older than previously thought. Its crust was reheated after its formation - and has thus misled researchers in determining its age After its formation, the Moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several times and was completely churned through.