Brian Koberlein is an astrophysicist and author known for his work in the field of astrophysics and science communication. He writes for various publications, including Universe Today, ScienceAlert, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. His articles cover a wide range of topics in astrophysics, from exoplanets and neutron stars to dark matter and the early universe.
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Type Ia supernovae are crucial to our understanding of cosmology. But we still don't fully understand what causes them.
Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?
By: Brian Koberlein
Interstellar objects visit our solar system all the time. A new study shows they likely come in streams of sibling objects from the same star system.
By: Brian Koberlein
We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar objects (ISOs), but that's mainly because we can only distinguish them from solar system bodies by their orbital motion, and that takes a series of observations over time.
The raw ingredients of terrestrial life are common in the Universe, and meteorites and comets may have even seeded Earth with those ingredients.
When a massive star dies as a supernova, it can leave behind a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star. The fastest pulsars can spin upwards of 700 times a second, blasting out regular pulses of energy. In a new paper, researchers propose that the fastest-spinning pulsars could contain quark matter in their cores. This would be even denser matter than neutrons and help explain how surprisingly massive neutron stars can spin so rapidly, maybe reaching 1,000 Hz.
What was the Milky Way like billions of years ago? One way we can find out is by looking at the most distant galaxies in the observable Universe. Seeing those far galaxies is one goal of the James Webb Space Telescope. It has revealed some surprising facts about early galaxies, and now it is starting to reveal the story of our own.
By: Brian Koberlein
Don Pettit is one of the astronauts currently on board the International Space Station. He's also a serious shutterbug and amateur astronomer. To take advantage of his current lofty perspective, he rigged up a special star tracking mount that he could use to take long-exposure astrophotos from the ISS. The homemade orbital sidereal tracker rotates at a 90-minute period to match the pitch rate of the ISS, allowing him to take 30-second exposures.
Many of the black holes astronomers observe are the result of mergers from less massive black holes. Using gravitational waves, we can observe two black holes coming together and their combined remnant. But can astronomers observe a black hole and work out the masses of the objects that came together? Can we build a black hole's family tree? In a new paper, researchers propose that the nearby environment puts limits on the kinds of black holes that can merge.
Within nearly every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. The beast at the heart of our galaxy contains the mass of millions of suns, while some of the largest supermassive black holes can be more than a billion solar masses. For years, it was thought that these black holes grew in mass over time, only reaching their current size after a billion years or more. But observations from the Webb telescope show that even the youngest galaxies contain massive black holes. So how could supermassive black holes grow so large so quickly? The key to the answer could be the powerful jets black holes can produce.
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