A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-nasa-mystery-year-old-rocket-asteroid.html…
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Astronomers release a black hole family portrait
“Black hole family portrait” is a fancy way of saying “new catalog.” But it’s a very important and exciting catalog, released October 28, 2020 by gravitational wave astronomers, containing 39 new signals from black hole or neutron star collisions. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/ligo-virgo-new-catalog-gwtc-2-black-hole-family-portrait…
Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket
The jig may be up for an “asteroid” that’s expected to get nabbed by Earth’s gravity and become a mini moon next month. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-fake-asteroid-nasa-expert-ids.html…
Mystery object picked up by sonar in Loch Ness
Cruise Loch Ness director Ronald Mackenzie captured the sonar image while out on the loch last Wednesday. The compelling image shows what appears to b… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/339943/mystery-object-picked-up-by-sonar-in-loch-ness…
Gravitational Waves Reveal Lightest Black Hole Ever Observed
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Gravitational wave detectors have spotted a cosmic collision in which a giant black hole swallowed up a mystery object seemingly too heavy to be a neutron star, but too light to be a black hole. Weighing in at 2.6 times the mass of the Sun, the object falls into a hypothetical “mass gap,” a…
Strange space signal could come from a ‘mystery object’
A big black hole gobbled up a mystery object. It emitted no light detectable from Earth. What was it? Source: https://www.livescience.com/black-hole-neutron-star-collision-mystery-object.html
LIGO and Virgo find a mystery object in the “mass gap”
The science world is buzzing today about a new discovery made via the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. It’s a new object found in the so-called “mass gap” between neutron stars and black holes. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/gw190814-mystery-object-in-mass-gap…
Either the heaviest-known neutron star or the lightest-known black hole: LIGO-Virgo finds mystery object in ‘mass gap’
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that are a bit less massive die, they explode in a supernova and leave behind dense, dead remnants of stars called neutron stars. For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a gap that lies between neutron stars and black holes: the heaviest…
Japanese authorities investigate mystery object
A large balloon-like ‘UFO’ has captured the attention of local residents, the media and even the government. The object, which has been described as ‘… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337672/japanese-authorities-investigate-mystery-object…
Mystery object plummets from the sky over UK
A bright fireball was spotted spiralling down from the heavens over the Cambridgeshire area earlier this week. The impressive spectacle, which appeare… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336408/mystery-object-plummets-from-the-sky-over-uk…