Most newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning
12 February 2024
When black holes are born from collapsing stars, they emit a short-lived jet that may slow down the black hole’s rotation to nearly a standstill
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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side
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A strange star more than 1300 light years away appears to have two sides with completely different compositions, and astronomers aren’t sure how it ended up that way
Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider. The particle could help researchers catalogue the states of exotic matter and figure out how fundamental particles stick together
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The early universe could be home to huge stars powered by dark matter annihilation instead of fusion – and the James Webb Space Telescope may have already found some
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A ring wormhole is one that you could simply step through, like a portal through space – but new, more detailed models have shown that they could be a portal through time as well
'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to powerful winds
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Colossal bubbles of hot gas observed around three distant, supermassive black holes are probably the result of powerful winds, which could also be preventing the formation of new stars in those galaxies
The 8 most dazzling images from JWST’s first year of science
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The James Webb Telescope revealed its first images of deep space on July 12 2022 – here’s a look back at one year of awe-inspiring images and confounding scientific discoveries
![Small dome in the Compton-Belkovich region (61.33 ?N, 99.68 ?E). Evidence indicates a volcanic origin for this and other intriguing features in the region. Incidence angle is 64?, Sun is from the SSW, image is ~510 m across. NAC image number M139238146L [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].](https://images.newscientistbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/07172644/SEI_163208069.jpg)
There’s a huge radioactive slab of volcanic granite buried on the moon
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A block of granite on the far side of the moon used to be the inside of a volcano – though researchers are unsure how the volcano could have formed
IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way for the first time
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A neutrino detector in Antarctica has found heaps of high-energy neutrinos coming from distant galaxies, but none from within our own – until now
