Radio astronomy

Astronomers reveal what ignites quasars

Astronomers said on April 26 that for the first time they have confirmed what ignites quasars, the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, which put galaxies in their "death throes."

These celestial behemoths form when two galaxies smash into each other, the astronomers said, warning that this could be the Milky Way's fate in a few billion years.

Scientists Uncovered Mysterious Radio Impulses from the Cosmos

Scientists unraveled the origin of one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe, reports Nova TV. It's about fast radio bursts (FRBs), an intense radio wave, which lasts only milliseconds. Up to now, only 24 similar signals have been recorded, and a single one, referred to as FRB 121102, has repeated.

The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity

Imagine you’re an astronomer with bright ideas about the hidden laws of the cosmos. Like any good scientist, you craft an experiment to test your hypothesis.

Then comes bad news – there’s no way to carry it out, except maybe in a computer simulation. For cosmic objects are way too unwieldy for us to grow them in Petri dishes or smash them together as we do with subatomic particles.

Could you decode a message from an Alien civilization?

In 1961, a small group of scientists met at the Green Bank radio astronomy observatory in West Virginia to discuss the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. One of the organizers was Frank Drake, who used the conference to present his now famous Drake equation describing the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

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