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It’s been well over 100 years since Einstein presented his theory of General Relativity, and … “Black Hole Mergers Test the Limits of General Relativity”
Earth’s day length varies by several milliseconds over decades, and a new model suggests the … “Earth’s inner core may be quietly changing the length of our days”
Supermassive black holes appear to launch delayed radio jets when their feeding rate falls to … “Stellar destruction reveals a universal rule for black hole jet formation”
GJ 3090 b, a sub-Neptune about 2.18 times Earth’s radius, follows a strongly misaligned retrograde … “Astronomers discover a strange planet circling its red dwarf star in the wrong direction”
Of the over 6,000 exoplanets astronomers have discovered so far, we’ve seen a huge range of … “Baby exoplanet is the youngest ever found”
ESA has just released one of the largest James Webb Space Telescope images yet, and … “Huge new Webb image is chock-full of space delights”
Gaia measurements of 7,426 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud reveal opposing motions across … “The Large Magellanic Cloud may be tearing its smaller neighbor apart”
The early days of solar system formation were chaotic! Planetesimals – ranging from a few … “Did the sun swallow a planet early in its history?”
Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity … “‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe”