26,000 Dead Star Surveys validate important aspects of extreme Stellar Activity
A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are…
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Electron Dance Calculated from the Brightness of Erupting Neutron Stars
The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black…
Light Echoes are used by Astrophysicists to Illuminate Black Holes
A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes.…
Caesium Titanate
Caesium titanate or cesium titanate is an inorganic compound with the formula Cs2TiO3. Like most other inorganic titanates, it adopts a polymeric structure with Cs-O…
Potassium Aluminate – an inorganic compound
Potassium aluminate is an inorganic compound with the empirical formula KAlO2, which in aqueous solution exists as K[Al(OH)4]. It is a salt that can form…
Benzal Chloride – an organic compound
Benzal chloride is an organic compound with the formula C6H5CHCl2. This colourless liquid is a lachrymator and is used as a building block in organic…
Monster Black Holes that Churn Gases
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting…
Early Universe’s Fastest-feeding Black Hole is found by Astronomers
Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at…
Zinc Gluconate
Zinc gluconate is the zinc salt of gluconic acid. It is an ionic compound consisting of two anions of gluconate for each zinc(II) cation. Zinc…
Scandium Hydride
Scandium hydride, also known as scandium–hydrogen alloy, is an alloy made by combining scandium and hydrogen. Hydrogen acts as a hardening agent, preventing dislocations in…
The Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galaxy is close to a Binary Star
An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.…
Evidence for Black Hole-generated Dark Energy Grows
Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and…
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