Galaxies News
April 27, 2024
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Apr. 24, 2024 While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope searched for an afterglow from the ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy, providing important clues on how the space between galaxies is polluted with chemical ...
Apr. 12, 2024 Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...
Apr. 16, 2024 A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected ...
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Apr. 16, 2024 Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...
Apr. 8, 2024 High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape of this plasma defy all conventional explanations. Dubbed the ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this galaxy is ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ...
Mar. 28, 2024 The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution processes, in a galaxy where stars are forming much more ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly ...
Mar. 25, 2024 New work aimed to study the star-forming gas in a single radio galaxy. Although the team didn't find any star-forming gas in the galaxy they were studying, they instead discovered other galaxies ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Astronomers have identified what could be two of the Milky Way's earliest building blocks: Named 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', these appear to be the remnants of two galaxies that merged between 12 and 13 ...
Mar. 20, 2024 The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...
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Mar. 18, 2024 Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ...
Mar. 11, 2024 The formation of stars and the chaotic environments they inhabit is one of the most well-studied, but also mystery-shrouded, areas of cosmic investigation. The intricacies of these processes are now ...
Mar. 6, 2024 A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a 'dead' ...
Mar. 5, 2024 It takes more than a galaxy merger to make a black hole grow and new stars form: machine learning shows cold gas is needed too to initiate rapid growth -- new research ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Looking deeply into space and time, astronomers have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An international ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a ...
Feb. 21, 2024 The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study. That ...
Feb. 20, 2024 A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun's backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Employing massive data sets collected through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are unearthing clues to conditions existing in the early universe. The team has catalogued the ages ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new stars and supercharged galaxy formation, a new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope data ...
Feb. 1, 2024 Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the Universe was less than a billion years ...
Jan. 31, 2024 The earliest galaxies are thought to have formed as the gravitational pull of dark matter, which has been impossible to study directly, slowly drew in enough hydrogen and helium to ignite stars. But ...
Jan. 29, 2024 The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS ...
Jan. 29, 2024 Scientists have identified 18 new tidal disruption events (TDEs) -- extreme instances when a nearby star is tidally drawn into a black hole and ripped to shreds. The detections more than double the ...
Jan. 26, 2024 Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter ...
Jan. 25, 2024 A new study describes the best method to improve images obtained by the James Webb Science Telescope (JWST) using a mathematical approach called ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is 'eating' its host galaxy to ...
Jan. 17, 2024 High-resolution images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are offering powerful insights into the complex dust patterns of nearby star-forming ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Astronomers have created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster, an ancient ball of tightly-packed ...
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- Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies
- Astronomers Spot 18 Black Holes Gobbling Up Nearby Stars
Friday, January 26, 2024
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- Astronomers Detect Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed
- Study Delivers Detailed Photos of Galaxies' Inner Structures
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Friday, December 22, 2023
- Hubble Sights a Galaxy With 'forbidden' Light
- Researchers Study a Million Galaxies to Find out How the Universe Began
Thursday, December 21, 2023
- Astronomers Detect Seismic Ripples in Ancient Galactic Disk
- Supernova Encore: Second Lensed Supernova in a Distant Galaxy
- Cosmic Lights in the Forest
Friday, December 15, 2023
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- Interpreting the Afterglow of a Black Hole's Breakfast
- 10-Billion-Year, 50,000-Light-Year Journey to Black Hole
- Dark Galactic Region Nicknamed 'The Brick' Explained With Webb Telescope Findings
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- Dwarf Galaxies Use 10-Million-Year Quiet Period to Churn out Stars
- NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
Monday, November 20, 2023
- Why the Vast Supergalactic Plane Is Teeming With Only One Type of Galaxy
- 'Teenage Galaxies' Are Unusually Hot, Glowing With Unexpected Elements
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- Milky Way-Like Galaxy Found in the Early Universe
- Scientists Find 14 New Transient Objects in Space by Peering Through the 'Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster'
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- Finding Explanation for Milky Way's Warp
- Stellar Fountain of Youth With Turbulent Formation History in the Center of Our Galaxy
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- Astronomers Discover Newborn Galaxies With the James Webb Space Telescope
- Astronomers Find Abundance of Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe, Rewriting Cosmic Evolution Theories
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- Matter Comprises of 31% of the Total Amount of Matter and Energy in the Universe
- Discovery of Two Potential Polar Ring Galaxies Suggests These Stunning Rare Clusters Might Be More Common Than Previously Believed
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- James Webb Telescope Catches Glimpse of Possible First-Ever 'dark Stars'
- When the Stars Align: Astronomers Find Answers to Mysterious Action of Ghost Stars in Our Galaxy
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- Webb Space Telescope Detects Universe's Most Distant Complex Organic Molecules
- NASA's Webb Space Telescope Peers Behind Bars
- Early Universe Crackled With Bursts of Star Formation, Webb Shows
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- Hidden Supermassive Black Holes Brought to Life by Galaxies on Collision Course
- Celestial Monsters at the Origin of Globular Clusters
- Astronomers Find No Young Binary Stars Near Milky Way's Black Hole