Life from Space

Black holes are not only matter-devouring gravity monsters, they also created the foundations for life - more than ten billion years ago. With their jets, they distributed vital elements evenly throughout the universe. Without black holes, no life-friendly zones would have developed in the galaxies. Researchers are finding more and more evidence of this.

Life on Earth may have had an important midwife: Meteorites. Did they bring the basic substances of life to our planet and possibly even life itself? Scientists around the world are looking for evidence that life was created by impulses from space.

A revolution in space exploration is at hand: the discovery of a living planet. The search for a second Earth is one of the most exciting fields in astronomy. Exoplanets are planets that orbit another sun. More than 4,500 are already known, but their actual number is infinite. A large number of these distant planets could be similar to Earth.