A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years ago, the most opaque place in the universe contained relatively little matter. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: galaxy
Young galaxy’s halo offers clues to its growth and evolution
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•A team of astronomers has tested a new way of studying the properties of the gaseous halo surrounding a galaxy using W. M. Keck Observatory’s new instrument, the Keck Cosmic …read more Source:: Science
Einstein proved right in another galaxy
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•Astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system. By combining data taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large …read more Source:: Science
New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star
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•A star that wanders too close to the supermassive black hole in the center of its galaxy will be torn apart by the black hole’s gravity in a violent cataclysm …read more Source:: Science
Black hole and stellar winds form giant butterfly, shut down star formation in galaxy
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•Researchers have completed an unprecedented ‘dissection’ of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging. The new study explores a galaxy called NGC 6240. While most galaxies in the universe …read more Source:: Science
Dark matter goes missing in oddball galaxy
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•Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don’t find one without the other. …read more Source:: Science
Hubble solves cosmic ‘whodunit’ with interstellar forensics
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•On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding-and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning. …read more Source:: Science
Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home
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•Astronomers have put NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient ‘relic galaxy’ in our own cosmic backyard. …read more Source:: Science
Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations
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•Astronomers have determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light-years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a …read more Source:: Science
Infant stars found surprisingly near galaxy’s supermassive black hole
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•ALMA has revealed the telltale signs of eleven low-mass stars forming perilously close — within three light-years — to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. …read more Source:: Science