Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet That’s Absolutely Massive
Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.
M87’s Black Hole in Motion: Stunning New Findings From the Event Horizon Telescope
Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
To determine which is the case, Stefánsson's team employed a trio of instruments: the NEID (pronounced ‘nu-id') spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in ...
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Gemini North, LOFAR Unveil Largest Early Radio Jet
From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling ...
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High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
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The black hole M87*: What has changed in one year
Left: EHT images of M87* from the 2018 and 2017 observation campaigns. Middle: Example images from a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation at two different times. Right: Same ...