Scientists have detected a mysterious gamma-ray heartbeat coming from a cosmic gas cloud. The inconspicuous cloud in the constellation Aquila is beating with the rhythm of a neighboring precessing black hole, indicating a connection between the two objects, as the team led by DESY Humboldt Fellow Jian Li and ICREA Professor Diego F. Torres from […]
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Strange behavior coming from the sun’s gamma rays, cause unknown
April 25th, 2018 Awake Goy
There’s something wrong with the sunshine. A nine-year survey of the sun’s gamma rays has turned up two surprises: an unexpected dip in low-energy gamma rays, and far more high-energy gamma rays than theory predicts. And we’re not sure what’s going on. “The sun is much weirder than we thought,” says John Beacom at […]
Observations from ESO telescopes provide crucial third dimension in probe of Universe’s dark side
December 16th, 2015 Awake Goy
ESO telescopes have provided an international team of astronomers with the gift of the third dimension in a plus-sized hunt for the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe — galaxy clusters. Observations by the VLT and the NTT complement those from other observatories across the globe and in space as part of the […]