18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... compact massive object is a black hole,” said Oka, the lead author of the paper that appeared in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Black holes can be roughly categorised into two different sizes: stellar-mass black holes...
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
using the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Xin-glong Station, and Australian Astronomical Observatory. The central star known as HD 47366 is larger than ...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... now developing a 4,000-pixel microcalorimeter array for the European-led Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics mission, expected to launch late next decade. ASTRO-H has been built by a major international collaboration led by JAXA...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... diversity of small rocky planets, models recently constructed by researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA), suggest that the answer is apparently yes. Using a computer model known as the Preliminary Reference...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... but consistent with the direction of GW150914 and does not appear connected with other previously known astrophysical, solar, terrestrial, or magnetospheric activity. A number of possibilities to account for this GRB have already been undertaken...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... observations. Now however, further analysis of FRB 150418 by Williams and Berger at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has led to the suggestion that this signal is not as Keane and his team suggest, but that...
