Research News at Penn State's Eberly College of Science
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- White dwarf planet remnants survive long enough to ‘tune in’ to their radio waves
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15 August 2019 — Signals from mostly destroyed planets can be heard millions of years later on Earth, providing important information about how solar systems age.
- How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?
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14 August 2019
- Evidence found for cloaked black hole in early universe
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08 August 2019 — A group of astronomers, including Penn State scientists, has announced the likely discovery of a highly obscured black hole existing only 850 million years after the Big Bang, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is the first evidence for a cloaked black hole at such an early time.