An international team of researchers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past nine billion years. [Read More]
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Researchers captured first-of-its-kind footage of a new glow-in-the-dark species of sea slug living in the "midnight zone" of the ocean -- a part untouched by sunlight more than 7,000ft below the surface. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-11-13 19:44
Scientists have captured incredible footage of a deep-sea mother squid clutching dozens of unusually huge eggs.
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Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial -- that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-03-05 17:20
Researchers on board the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer have captured gorgeous footage of what is known as a glass squid. While this creature isn't rare, close-up views of it like this truly highlight its beauty. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-08-18 20:46
Scientists have, for the first time, recorded a millimeter-wavelength light explosion caused by the merging of a neutron star with another star. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-04 19:10
Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have captured stunning footage of a new species of deep-sea jellyfish. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-25 22:50
In April of 2018, a team of scientists made an imaging breakthrough that allowed them to capture this incredible video of an immune cell moving through the tissues of a zebra fish’s inner ear, picking up sugar particles as it goes along. petapixel.com »
2019-11-26 01:23
A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) have figured out how to capture super slow-motion footage using what’s called an “Event Camera.” That is: a camera that sees the world in a continuous stream of information, the way humans do. Regular cameras work by capturing discreet frames, […] petapixel.com »
2019-07-09 22:23
When an object breaks the sound barrier—accelerates to the point where it’s moving faster than the speed of sound—it creates pressure waves that result in what is called a “sonic boom” and Mach cone. petapixel.com »
2017-01-23 22:28
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy that is not acting like the destructive monsters they are often portrayed as. Instead, this black hole is creating stars rather than absorbing them. [Read More]