Images made with the continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array detect the orbital motion of two supermassive black holes as they circle each other at the center of a distant galaxy. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: galaxy
‘Hyper-starburst’ galaxy churns out stars, clues to universe’s evolution
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•A recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction. …read more Source:: Science
Cosmic ‘barcode’ from distant galaxy confirms Nature’s constancy
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•Astronomers have precisely measured the strength of a fundamental force of Nature in a galaxy seen eight billion years in the past. Researchers have confirmed that electromagnetism in a distant …read more Source:: Science
Detour via gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible
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•Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole …read more Source:: Science
Tsunami of stars and gas produces dazzling eye-shaped feature in galaxy
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•Astronomers have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This colossal wave of material — …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat open sources Ansible Galaxy for all
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•Red Hat double-downs on open-sourcing components of its Ansible DevOps program. …read more Source:: Linux
Our galaxy’s most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
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•A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. …read more Source:: Science