Radio Observations Find Nothing at Omega Centauri's Heart
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Astronomers have performed the deepest radio observations ever of Omega Centauri, searching for signs of an intermediate mass black hole thought to lurk at its center. Despite 170 hours of observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array achieving u...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:00 +0000
Did a Rogue Planet Reshape Our Solar System?
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Researchers have discovered that a close encounter with a rogue planet or brown dwarf during the Sun's early years could have triggered the reshuffling of our Solar System's giant planets. Running 3000 simulations of stellar flybys, the team found that sub...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:43 +0000
A New Window on the Expansion of the Universe
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Astronomers at the University of Tokyo have used gravitational lensing to measure how fast the universe is expanding, adding weight to one of cosmology's most intriguing mysteries. Their technique exploits the way massive galaxies bend light from distant q...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:17 +0000
Scientists Find the Strongest Evidence Yet of an Atmosphere on a Molten Rocky Exoplanet
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Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system. Observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b suggest that the exoplanet is surrounded by a t...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:54 +0000
Forget Stardust - It Was Star-Ice All Along
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Carl Sagan famously said that “We’re all made of star-stuff”. But he didn’t elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, many of the molecules in our bodies could only have been created in massive supernovae explosions - hence the saying. Scientis...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:44 +0000
Is the Big Bang a Myth? Part 3: The Splitting of the Forces
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The early universe was a very different place than today. And by “early” I don’t mean a billion or even ten billion years ago. The universe is about 13.77 billion years old, and when it was only a handful of seconds old, it was completely unrecogniza...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:24 +0000