Author: Daniel Tom

Astronomers have spotted two ghostly Goliaths en route to a cataclysmic meeting. The newfound pair of supermassive black holes are the closest to colliding ever seen, the astronomers announced on January 9 at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle and in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.     While close together in cosmological terms…

Earlier this year, astronomers were keeping tabs on data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an all-sky survey based at the Palomar Observatory in California, when they detected an extraordinary flash in a part of the sky where no such light had been observed the night before. From a rough calculation, the flash appeared to give…

Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have detected about 85 pairs of black holes crashing into each other. We now know that Einstein was right: gravitational waves are generated by these systems as they inspiral around each other, distorting space-time with their colossal masses as they go. We also know that these cosmic crashes happen frequently:…

Stuck on a rock in a crocodile infested river, this Wildebeest must have feared for its life. And, separated from the rest of the herd with a group of hippos closing in, the prospects for the animal did not seem appealing. But in an amazing act of animal compassion one of the passing hippos paddles…

Do you guys believe in giants? Probably not. But in fact, you can easily find unearthed photos of many giant skeletons … astounded. Maybe most of them are “fake” but they are really impressive. Even a few photos of the giant skeleton are still controversial because of its authenticity. 1. 18 giant skeletons in Wisconsin in 1912 In May 1912,…

A passer-by on Christmas Day found a meter-long shell on a riverbank in Argentina which may be from a glyptodont, a prehistoric kind of giant armadillo, experts said Tuesday. A local man thought the black scaly shell was a dinosaur egg when he saw it lying in the mud, his wife Reina Coronel told AFP. Her husband…

Aircraft carriers are some of the most formidable vessels in the world. They are the most powerful ships in the fleet, equipped with a wide array of weapons and advanced technology. However, with such power comes great responsibility, and the crew must always be vigilant to ensure the safety of everyone on board. One of…

Recreational SCUBA divers were enjoying a dive off the coast of Cenderawasih Bay, west Papau, Indonesia, when they spotted four whale sharks trapped in a net. The whale sharks were stuck in a midsize trawl net that is usually used to capture large schools of fish or shrimp. Featured Image Credit: National Geographic The whales…

More than four billion space bodies, a.k.a., meteoroids fall into the Earth’s gravity well every day. This moniker covers everything in size greater than interplanetary dust, but less than that of an asteroid. These are small stones in the majority which quickly burn up in the terrestrial atmosphere. Only a few can pass this barrier.…

Estimates by astronomers indicate that there could be more than 100 BILLION Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way that could be home to life. Think that’s a big number? According to astronomers, there are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the known universe, which means there are around 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5×1022) habitable planets. That’s of course if…