Brian Koberlein
It's a Fine Line Between a Black Hole Energy Factory and a Black Hole Bomb
You might be surprised to learn there's a way to extract enormous energy from a rapidly spinning black hole. Known…
New Types of Hidden Stars Seen for the First Time
Astronomers performing a vast infrared variable star survey have discovered new additions to the stellar menagerie. These new types of…
Nancy Grace Roman Could Find the First Stars in the Universe
The first stars in the Universe were made out of the primordial hydrogen and helium left over from the Big…
Webb Sees Dozens Of Young Quasars in the First Billion Years of the Universe
One of JWST's big tasks is to help astronomers understand how the early Universe came together, with dwarf galaxies merging…
What Could the Extremely Large Telescope See at Proxima Centauri's Planet?
Astronomers discovered a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Could there…
The Next Generation LIFE Telescope Could Detect Some Intriguing Biosignatures
JWST has shown that it can detect various chemicals in the atmospheres of other worlds, from water vapor to carbon…
Life on Earth Uses Water as a Solvent. What are Some Other Options for Life as We Don't Know it?
Your body's cells use water to dissolve chemicals. It's the same with all life on Earth. But could other fluids…
M87*'s Event Horizon Image. One Year Later
In 2017, a worldwide collection of radio telescopes gathered data about the event horizon around the supermassive black hole at…
Astronomers Have Mapped the Milky Way's Magnetic Fields in 3D
Researchers have developed the first 3D maps of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of the Milky Way. While…
Astronomers Rule Out One Explanation for the Hubble Tension
Astronomers measure the Universe's expansion rate and have found a discrepancy between the speed nearby versus the speed measured in…