Major discovery on the Big Bang

Scientists who were looking for means of propulsion for rockets and planes have discovered how supernovas explode, relays "L'Express". Funded by the United States military, scientists found, somewhat by accident, the beginnings of an explanation. By looking for new means of propulsion for planes...

A neutron star sought for 30 years finally discovered

Cardiff University scientists would have found this star hidden for several years behind a cloud of dust, reveals "The Independent" For thirty years, scientists around the world have relentlessly tracked her down. A neutron star is said to have been found by researchers at Cardiff University,...

A new class of black holes discovered

Thanks to an innovative method, researchers may have detected a "low mass" black hole Some 104 years after Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, a team of researchers may have made a major discovery about the existence of black holes. In developing a "new way" to detect them, the...

Discovery of a first planet orbiting a white dwarf

At least one exoplanet has been able to survive the violent transitions that a solar-type star experiences during its lifetime, to the final stage. In several billion years, when the Sun has swollen to the point of encompassing the orbit of Mars, or even that of Earth, becoming a giant red,...

Cheops: a mission to shed light on exoplanets

The Swiss-European satellite should bring exoplanetology into a new era. That of the study of exoplanets that Cheops is about to measure. Since the discovery of the first exoplanet 51 Pegasi b by the Swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, Nobel Prize in physics 2019 for this discovery, the list...