New light has been shed on a mysterious and long-standing conundrum at the very heart of our galaxy. The new work offers a potential solution to the so-called ‘Galactic bar …read more Source:: Science
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Spitzer telescope reveals the precise timing of a black hole dance
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•Scientists have finally figured out the precise timing of a complicated dance between two enormous black holes, revealing hidden details about the physical characteristics of these mysterious cosmic objects. …read more Source:: Science
New formation theory explains the mysterious interstellar object ‘Oumuamua
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•Since its discovery in 2017, an air of mystery has surrounded the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body named ‘Oumuamua. How was it …read more Source:: Science
First identified comet to visit our solar system from another star
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•Comet 2I/Borisov is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space — the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. Hubble images capture the comet streaking though our …read more Source:: Science
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
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•As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral …read more Source:: Science
Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa
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•Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant flightless bird — the now extinct adzebill — showing that some of its closest living relatives are the …read more Source:: Science
Tiny Neptune moon spotted by Hubble may have broken from larger moon
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•After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that …read more Source:: Science
Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer
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•‘Where did the hot Neptunes go?’ This is the question astronomers have been asking for a long time, faced with the mysterious absence of planets the size of Neptune. Researchers …read more Source:: Science
Carbon reserves in Central American soils still affected by ancient Mayan deforestation
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•Deforestation is suspected to have contributed to the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization more than 1,000 years ago. A new study shows that the forest-clearing also decimated carbon reservoirs in …read more Source:: Science
Our galaxy’s most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
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•A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. …read more Source:: Science