Simulations
The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Might Have Formed 9 Billion Years Ago
Large galaxies like ours are hosts to Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs.) They can be so massive that they resist comprehension,…
A New Model Explains How Gas and Ice Giant Planets Can Form Rapidly
The most widely recognized explanation for planet formation is the accretion theory. It states that small particles in a protoplanetary…
Not All Black Holes are Ravenous Gluttons
Some Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) consume vast quantities of gas and dust, triggering brilliant light shows that can outshine an…
Life Might Be Difficult to Find on a Single Planet But Obvious Across Many Worlds
If we could detect a clear, unambiguous biosignature on just one of the thousands of exoplanets we know of, it…
Astronomers Calculate Which Exoplanets Are Most Likely to Have Water
Astronomers know of about 60 rocky exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. When they try to determine…
Colliding Moons Might Have Created Saturn’s Rings
If we could wind the clock back billions of years, we'd see our Solar System the way it used to…
Gluttonous Black Holes Eat Faster Than Thought. Does That Explain Quasars?
At the heart of large galaxies like our Milky Way, there resides a supermassive black hole (SMBH.) These behemoths draw…
Want Artemis to Succeed? Virtual Reality Can Help
Artemis astronauts are returning to the Moon, and they'll be following in Apollo's footsteps when they go. But things are…
It Would Take Hubble 85 Years to Match What Nancy Grace Roman Will See in 63 Days
A NASA-led team of researchers created a simulation that demonstrates what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see.
Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?
Black holes are the most massive objects that we know of in the Universe. Not stellar mass black holes, not…