Items tagged with astrophysics

A Northwestern University astrophysicist has produced a stunning video of four planets dancing around their sun. The tantalizing planetary dance was made using observations over a 12-year period. The four exoplanets tripping the light fantastic were among the first ever to be directly imaged, a discovery made in... Read more...
A pair of supermassive blackholes are locked in a fateful dance that draws them ever closer to one another. Once the pair finally merges in approximately 10,000 years, the result is expected to send out gravitational waves that will rattle space and time itself. Astronomers have known that quasars could possess two... Read more...