Posts Tagged ‘galaxies’
‘Sports car’ galaxy burns gas into stars
MCGILL (CAN) — A newly discovered galaxy turns gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency—a rare phase of evolution that is the most extreme ever observed. Continue…
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Science & Technology - Apr 18, 2013 6:47 - 0 Comments
Massive star factory in early universe
CALTECH (US) — Astronomers have found a star-generating galaxy that existed billions of years earlier than expected possible, churning out 2,000 times more stars than the Milky Way. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 5, 2013 14:28 - 0 Comments
‘Green Pea’ galaxies overflowing with light
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early universe, researchers say. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 6, 2013 9:23 - 1 Comment
Did black hole smash-up shape the Milky Way?
VANDERBILT / GEORGIA TECH (US) — There’s growing evidence that the center of the Milky Way galaxy has a violent past and two astronomers say a black hole collision can explain all the forensic clues. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 23, 2013 18:25 - 0 Comments
‘Gilligan and Skipper’ dwarf galaxies discovered
CASE WESTERN RESERVE (US) — Astronomers have discovered a faint dwarf galaxy and another possible young dwarf caught before it had a chance to form any stars. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 2, 2013 10:20 - 0 Comments
Fast stars mix it up inside Milky Way bar
U. VIRGINIA / U. MICHIGAN (US) — Hundreds of stars rapidly moving together in long, looping orbits around the center of our galaxy act like a “giant mixer.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 28, 2012 17:04 - 2 Comments
Most massive black hole fills strange galaxy
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — A black hole that is 17 billion times the mass of the sun could change theories about how black holes and galaxies form and evolve. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 24, 2012 9:12 - 1 Comment
Unruly galaxies have ‘Peter Pan syndrome’
U. ARIZONA (US) — Galaxies don’t appear to be in any hurry to grow up. New research shows that disk galaxies like the Milky Way reached their current state as orderly rotating pinwheels much later than previously thought. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 2, 2012 11:40 - 6 Comments
Edge of a black hole: ‘You’re not coming back’
U. ARIZONA (US) — What happens to matter as it spirals into a black hole 6 billion times the mass of our sun? (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2012 6:42 - 8 Comments
Most distant galaxy shines light on early universe
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 5, 2012 14:30 - 0 Comments
Birth of bright galaxies lit up early universe
UC BERKELEY / U. CHICAGO (US) — The birth of the first massive galaxies was an explosive event in the early universe, according to new data. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 15, 2012 13:24 - 1 Comment
Massive galaxy cluster smashes cosmic records
MCGILL (CAN) — The discovery of a giant galaxy cluster—one of the largest objects in the universe—may force astronomers to rethink how these colossal structures, and the galaxies that inhabit them, evolve. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 26, 2012 16:29 - 0 Comments
Far, far away galaxy cluster is a ‘whopper’
U. FLORIDA (US) — A galaxy cluster 10 billion light-years from Earth is the most massive one ever seen at such a distance, researchers report. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 6, 2012 17:03 - 2 Comments
Lens method puts dark new galaxy in focus
UC DAVIS (US) — A faint “satellite galaxy” 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance, say researchers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 12, 2012 12:24 - 0 Comments
Milky Way is ‘white as snow’
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — The most accurate determination yet of the color of the Milky Way galaxy finds it is pure white—”almost mirroring a fresh spring snowfall,” astrophysicists say. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 19, 2011 14:47 - 0 Comments
Early black holes gorged on ‘fast food’
CARNEGIE MELLON (US) — The largest cosmological simulation ever conducted shows that a steady diet of cold dense gas caused the rapid growth of the early supermassive black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 7, 2011 10:20 - 0 Comments
New black holes pop up in young galaxy
YALE (US) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be three fast-growing, supermassive black holes in a relatively young, still-forming galaxy. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 19, 2011 10:58 - 0 Comments
Did massive stars blow away cosmic fog?
U. MICHIGAN (US) — High-energy light from massive stars may have cleared the dense fog that existed between galaxies in the early universe, new research suggests. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 15, 2011 11:06 - 1 Comment
‘Twisted’ solution to antimatter vs. matter
U. WARWICK (UK) — Physicists may have neglected the significant effect of our galaxy’s rotation on the pattern of how subatomic particles breakdown, a new study suggests. (more…)
