NASA and Uber Test System for Future Urban Air Transport
A new future for city transport is in the works at NASA – a future where both people and packages will take to the air. And, this week, the agency…
NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Its 1st Star-shredding Black Hole
For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Follow-up observations by NASA’s Neil…
Found: Three Black Holes On Collision Course
Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. The unusual system was captured by several observatories, including three NASA space telescopes. “We were only…
Finding Intermediate-Sized Black Holes
In our vast universe, the heaviest black holes grew from seeds. Nourished by the gas and dust they consume, or by merging with other dense objects, these seeds grow in size and…
Hubble Finds Medusa in the Sky
The galaxy pictured in this Hubble image has an especially evocative name: the Medusa merger. Often referred to by its somewhat drier New General Catalogue designation of NGC 4194, this was not always one…