The expanse of Lake Taupō’s azure waters, crowned by hazy, mountainous horizons, evoke an extreme sense of calm. And yet, deep beneath the ground, geological unrest is brewing, according to a new paper in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. Lake Taupō is the largest freshwater lake in Australasia and is located in … Read more
A newly discovered star is so close to our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole that it completes one orbit in just four years. This is the shortest orbit yet for any of the stars orbiting Sagittarius A*. It’s an oval-shaped journey around the black hole that takes the star to orbital speeds in excess of … Read more
A newly discovered star is so close to our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole that it completes one orbit in just four years. This is the shortest orbit yet for any of the stars orbiting Sagittarius A*. It’s an oval-shaped journey around the black hole that takes the star to orbital speeds in excess of … Read more