This composite image shows the location of the supernova SN 1979C within the galaxy M100.
An exploding star spotted 30 years ago in a nearby galaxy appears to be a newborn black hole, astronomers reported on Monday.
X-ray observations suggest the supernova, called SN 1979C, is a black hole in the making, a team of U.S. and European astronomers said.
"If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed," Daniel Patnaude of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in
While some scientists are excited by the finds, others say more evidence
is needed that we have found alien life. File picture Source: Supplied
WE are not alone and alien life forms may have more in common with life on Earth than we had thought, according to a NASA scientist.
The out-of-this-world research by Dr Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre, was published in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology.
In the report, Dr Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites,
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