Supermassive Black Hole + 2 More Cool Steps We Made This Week to Be Closer to Space
Space holds so many secrets and yet the humanity knows only a few of them. Each week Nexter.org prepares a new dose of space news and latest discoveries that make us one step closer to space.
Supermassive black hole
Australian astronomers discovered a massive black hole that’s the size of at least 20 billion suns every 48 hours.
Astronomers have found the fastest-growing black hole ever seen in the universe. It's growing so quickly it can devour a mass the size of the sun every two days. https://t.co/jLnSFL779g pic.twitter.com/2TXAg3PJp1
— CNN (@CNN) May 16, 2018
Hello from Wall-E
Source: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
On May 5, NASA launched two, tiny, briefcase-sized satellites (called cubesats) to Mars, but at least one of them still has an eye for Earth. One of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) cubesats, nicknamed Wall-E, snapped a photo of Earth from more than half a million miles away.
China’s first private rocket
Source: Wan Nan/Chongqing Daily/VCG via Getty Images
China launched its first privately developed rocket from a launchpad in northwestern China on Thursday, state media said, the latest milestone in the country’s ambitious space exploration program.
Evidence of a plume on Europa
Source: NASA
Scientists have uncovered the biggest evidence yet that water may be spewing from the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa — a revelation that was buried deep within the archives of a long-dead NASA spacecraft.
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