‘Unicorn’ spotted just 1,500 light-years from Earth makes it the closest black hole to our planet

‘Unicorn’ spotted just 1,500 light-years from Earth makes it the closest black hole to our planet ever discovered Scientist identified the smallest and closest black hole to Earth Named ‘The Unicorn,’ it is only 1,500 light years from our planet The black hole is also just three times the mass of our sun Experts identified … Read more

Supermassive black hole is MOVING 110,000mph through a galaxy 230 million light-years from Earth

Supermassive black hole with a mass three million times of the sun is MOVING 110,000mph through a galaxy 230 million light-years from Earth that could be the aftermath of two merging together Scientists found the clearest evidence of a moving supermassive black hole  It is moving 110,000mph in a galaxy 230 million light-years from Earth  … Read more

Giant flare that passed Mars came from a neutron star in a galaxy 11.4 million light-years away

Giant flare that swept passed Mars originated from a powerful neutron star in a galaxy 11.4 million light-years from Earth A giant flare was detected in April by NASA satellites as it swept passed Mars  Scientists say it came from a powerful neutron star 11.4 million light-years away This is the highest burst to be … Read more

Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to a supermassive black hole in our galaxy than first thought

Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy than first thought Japan’s space agency has created a new map of the Milky Way The team has been collecting data for the past 15 years, revealing new insights   Earth is only 25,800 light years away from a supermassive … Read more

NASA’s Hubble telescope spots the ‘Greater Pumpkin’ galaxies 120 MILLION light-years from Earth

NASA’s Hubble telescope spots the ‘Greater Pumpkin’ galaxies 120 MILLION light-years from Earth, complete with glowing eyes and a carved crooked smile NASA’s Hubble telescope captured a spooky scene 120 million light-years away Deemed the ‘Greater Pumpkin’, the image is of two galaxies colliding The aging red stars are creating an orange hue that resembles … Read more

Astronomers capture first direct image of an exoplanet located some 63 light-years from Earth

Astronomers from the Max Planck institutes has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet in another star system some 63 light years away from Earth – and have shared a picture to prove it. Called b Pictoris c, the planet was captured using the radial velocity method that detects exoplanets, along with the Very Large Telescopes … Read more

NASA finds an active galaxy 500 million light-years away that looks like a Star Wars TIE fighter 

NASA telescopes have spotted a galaxy ‘far, far, away’ — 500 million light-years, to be precise — that is the spitting image of a TIE fighter from Star Wars. In the long-running space opera, these agile spacecraft named in-universe for their ‘Twin Ion Engines’ are flown by Darth Vader and the forces of the Galactic … Read more

Stunning NASA image reveals a ‘fluffy galaxy’ 67 million light-years away from Earth

Stunning ‘fluffy galaxy’ 67 million light-years away from Earth is spotted by NASA’s Hubble telescope Galaxy NGC 2275 and is located around 67 million light-years from Earth  It can be found in the constellation of Cancer and appears to be ‘fluffy’   Feathery appearance is likely a sign that the galaxy has been quiet for some time  … Read more

Purple ‘firework streamers’ spotted 8,000 light-years from Earth

Caught in the Act! Astronomers spot ‘firework streamers’ 8,000 light-years from Earth celebrating the birth of a massive star cluster Astronomers witness ‘firework streamers’ in space, 8,000 light-years away They spotted formation of a new star cluster, which takes a million years The  Actacama Large Millimeter captured gas forming individual stars   NASA’s Hubble revealed a group … Read more

First fast radio burst discovered in the Milky Way traced to a magnetar 32,616 light-years away

The first fast radio burst to be discovered in the Milky Way has been traced back to a magnetar — a neutron star with a strong magnetic field — 32,616 light-years away. Fast radio bursts are mysterious, brief pulses of energy whose origins have long been unclear but are used to probe the space across … Read more