Paul M. Sutter
R136 is the Most Massive Star Astronomers Have Ever Found. We Just got Some new Images of it
Meet R136a1, the most massive star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it's a hulking behemoth weighing somewhere between…
MIT Researchers Propose Space Bubbles to Stop Climate Change
Climate change is a real problem. Human caused outputs of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are the main…
Astronomers Were Fortunate Enough to Catch a Neutron Star Merging With Another Star
A team of astronomers have followed the evolution of a short duration gamma ray burst, one of the most intense…
Gravitational Waves Near a Neutron Star Could Generate Photons
In addition to their intense magnetic fields and copious output of x-ray radiation, neutron stars might have one more trick…
Gravitational Wave Telescopes Could Detect Clumps of Dark Matter Drifting Through the Solar System
Attempts to directly detect dark matter have come up empty. A team of physicists have proposed a brand new method:…
Earth has Clouds of Water. Hot Exoplanets Have Clouds of Sand
A team of astronomers studied brown dwarfs to figure out how hot exoplanets form clouds of sand. They found that…
The Gravitational Constant is Tricky to pin Down Accurately. Here’s a new way to Measure it
A team of physicists have used a pair of vibrating rods to measure the gravitational constant to incredibly fine precision.…
A Mission Concept to fly a Solar Neutrino Detector Close to the Sun
Astronomers have proposed a concept mission to fly a neutrino observatory into orbit around the Sun to get a better…
A new Record for the Strongest Magnetic Field Seen in the Universe: 1.6 Billion Tesla
A team of astronomers using the Chinese Insight-HXMT x-ray telescope have made a direct measurement of the strongest magnetic field…
The Earliest Galaxies Rotated Slowly, Revving up Over Billions of Years
A team of astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to find a slowly-rotating galaxy in the early universe. That galaxy…