SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged gravitational lensing Astronomers just picked up a 9 billion-year-old radio signal from space These compositions are chemical, not musical. By Cassidy Ward | 1 week ago Hubble captured a supernova at three different ages in one image It's a unique window into the death of a star. By Cassidy Ward | 2 months ago Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago! JD1 shows signs of coherent rotation when it was less than 500 million years old. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Hubble spies what may be a rogue black hole just 5,000 light years away The problem is we're not sure it's really a black hole. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago Hubble sees the farthest star in the Universe A gravity assist helps the 'scope see a star 12.9 billion light-years away. By Phil Plait | 10 months ago Astronomers find the first rogue black hole wandering the Milky Way! If confirmed, it's the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ever found. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Galactic death: Some galaxies hit the gas, live fast, and die young By Phil Plait | 1 year ago The Molten Ring Galaxy is blasting out a trillion suns worth of infrared radiation By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Space warp puts a supernova on cosmic repeat By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Load More
Astronomers just picked up a 9 billion-year-old radio signal from space These compositions are chemical, not musical. By Cassidy Ward | 1 week ago
Hubble captured a supernova at three different ages in one image It's a unique window into the death of a star. By Cassidy Ward | 2 months ago
Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago! JD1 shows signs of coherent rotation when it was less than 500 million years old. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
Hubble spies what may be a rogue black hole just 5,000 light years away The problem is we're not sure it's really a black hole. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
Hubble sees the farthest star in the Universe A gravity assist helps the 'scope see a star 12.9 billion light-years away. By Phil Plait | 10 months ago
Astronomers find the first rogue black hole wandering the Milky Way! If confirmed, it's the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ever found. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
The Molten Ring Galaxy is blasting out a trillion suns worth of infrared radiation By Phil Plait | 1 year ago