Ironically, however, coronal holes are more common during solar minimum, when the Sun is least active, meaning this week’s appearance took astronomers by surprise. In November a giant ‘sunspot ...
"Our results imply that in the early universe, supermassive black holes might have gained their mass before their host ...
Almost all galaxies host giant black holes at their hearts, and it appears that the two are inseparable. But so far, ...
“No one was expecting to find a high-mass black hole lurking nearby, undetected so far,” Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer from ...
and coronal holes that send winds of plasma and magnetically charged particles washing over Earth. Scientists aren't yet sure whether the sun has already hit solar maximum, but if it hasn't ...
People might assume that, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole, the Earth would be doomed to fall towards it. Black ...
Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are ...
More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena, Calif., institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson ...
Las Vegas has been home to professional sports for nearly a decade now, and game days in that time have proven to be big ...
BEER giant Heineken has announced plans to invest £39million to help reopen 62 previously shuttered British pubs. The global ...