Archive for 'Galaxy'

The mysterious black hole

The mysterious black hole

Back on the sea of articles, surfing the latest news. And what is the latest rabbit from the hat? Well, we know that they should be there, we know how do they look like, but we don’t know where they are and why we don’t see them. And I’m not talking about aliens, they fit […]

Early, early, early, early black holes

Early, early, early, early black holes

I wrote this article sitting in a cafe, drinking good decaf latte from a light green mug and listening to unknown ambiental music. – Who came first, the galaxy or the black hole? – Is the evolution of black holes linked with the one of its host galaxy from the beginning? – How many massive […]

Black holes as telescopes

Black holes as telescopes

What can you do with a black hole? A first answer will be like, not much, and you better keep your distance! It turns out that you can use the black hole in the center of our Galaxy as a giant telescope. At least this is the idea of Amitai Bin-Nun of the University of […]

Another door opens for SETI

Another door opens for SETI

Let’s start explaining the title, what is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)? It’s a very serious initiative to respond a fundamental question for us humans: Are We Alone? The project uses telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such events do not occur naturally, so a detection would provide strong evidence of extraterrestrial […]

Space – The final frontier

Space – The final frontier

I may continue with the full phrase like “These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise …” but we are a long way to say that. Presently we just managed to send people to our moon, some time ago, and we are scratching the surface of our solar system. This doesn’t mean that we didn’t […]