970 results for "galaxies"

Posted on Jul 12, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science A ‘Holy Grail’ of astronomy is to provide a clear map of our galaxy –a perspective of Earth’s relationship...

Posted on Jul 20, 2020 in Astronomy, News, Science, Space, Technology “Beyond the Void” –‘We are Early Explorers of the Cosmos, Extending into the Unknown’ “Consciousness” –Existing Beyond Matter, Or...

Posted on Jul 14, 2020 in Astronomy, Science A short gamma ray burst left the most-distant optical afterglow ever detected –incredibly faint and fast signals sometimes lasting mere hours–some 10...

Posted on Jun 3, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Space “The Cow and CSS161010 were very different in how fast they were able to speed up these outflows,” said Northwestern astrophysicist...

ESA scientists observe that it cannot be proven whether the particular cloud of dust and gas that gave birth to our Sun collapsed as a result of the collision with...

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 in Dark Matter, Science Astrophysicists believe that dark matter is responsible for much of the structure of galaxies. Yet to this day, scientists have yet...

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Galaxies “The outflows emanate from quasars and tear across interstellar space similar to tsunamis on Earth, wreaking havoc on the galaxies...

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Astronomy, Cosmos, Physics, Science, Universe “Galaxies are children of random quantum fluctuations produced during the first 10-35 seconds after the birth of the universe,”...

Posted on Feb 28, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe, a gargantuan event originating from a super-massive black hole in...

Posted on Jan 2, 2020 in Astronomy, Science On November 20th, astronomers released an image of the Milky Way’s violent center similar in importance to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)...

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 in Astronomy, Cosmos, Galaxies “We found that its core seems already fully formed at that time,” says Masayuki Tanaka who led a team of researchers...

Posted on Dec 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science, Space, Universe “If we point a telescope to the sky and take a deep image, we can see so many galaxies...

Posted on Dec 18, 2019 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science, Space, Technology Each tiny dot in the radio image above, captured by astronomers using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)...

“This could be a unique way of probing the physics around these supermassive black holes in a way that could not be probed in any other way,” said theoretical gravitational...

Posted on Feb 13, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Galaxies, Space, Universe Massive galaxies like our Milky Way and Andromeda typically consist of hundreds of billions of stars and host...

Antimatter Galaxies –“Could Create the Most Destructive Event Since the Big Bang” “Ground Zero for Past Life?” –Mars Jezero Crater Future NASA Landing Site Harbors Ancient River Delta “Visitor from...

Posted on May 14, 2021 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science, Space “Just because we happen to live in a region that is overwhelmingly dominated by matter doesn’t preclude the existence...

Posted on Oct 2, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Space Supermassive black holes simply grow along with the stars independent of their host galaxy’s mass, the larger environment, or...

A string of 13 dwarf galaxies in orbit around the massive galaxy Andromeda –remnants of the population of primordial structures that coalesced to form giant galaxies like the Milky Way–are...

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Universe “When we look far into the distant universe, we are observing objects way in the past – when they were...

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space “A billion years ago, something in the whirling darkness of space erupted with a fury that obscured the glow of entire...

Posted on Aug 7, 2019 in Astronomy, Galaxies, News, Science, Space Astronomers used the combined power of multiple astronomical observatories around the world and in space-including ALMA and Hubble- to...

The universe, perhaps surprisingly, is not comprised of galaxies randomly distributed throughout space; that is, it is not very homogeneous. Instead, its galaxies are clustered into distinct structures that harbor...

Posted on Jul 24, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space Complex interactions between the supermassive black holes and their host galaxies explain the decrease in star formation that astronomers observe to...

Posted on Jun 18, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Space Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe...

Posted on May 8, 2019 in Astronomy, Science These first supernovae could have also been powerful enough to shoot heavy elements into neighboring “virgin galaxies” that had yet to form...

Posted on Jan 26, 2022 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Galaxies, Science “We did not expect that Spitzer, with a mirror no larger than a Hula-Hoop, would be capable of seeing galaxies...

Posted on Apr 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science “Imagine the beings that exist there!” Is our thought every time we look at the spectacular ESO image of spiral galaxy...

Posted on Mar 20, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers are confident that the volume of space-time within range of our telescopes—‘the universe’—is only a tiny fraction of the aftermath of...

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 in Science “We hope to next find out how common these galaxies are and whether they exist in other areas of the universe,” said astronomer...

Posted on Feb 27, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “One intriguing possibility is that some of these ghostly galaxies are living fossils from the dawn of the universe when stars and...

Posted on Feb 19, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science Astronomers have recently discovered that the expanse of space-time within range of our telescopes—‘the universe’—is only a tiny fraction of the...

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 Galaxies are not necessarily safe from celestial, ultramassive behemoths lurking at their centers: “We have discovered black holes that are far larger and way more...

Posted on Jan 12, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Science According to current measurements, the size of the cosmos must be larger than a hundred billion light-years. This is the order...

The huge elliptical galaxy Abell 2597 that lies at the heart of one of the universe’s most massive galaxy clusters has revealed a cosmic secret to the evolution and lifespan...

There should be many more dwarf galaxies that have yet to be discovered and that are hiding at large distances from the Milky Way center, observed Tobias K. Fritz, a...

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Astronomy, Discovery, Genetics, NASA, Science New research has found that massive, ultracompact galaxies, which have several times more stars than the Milky Way, evolve...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the great astrophysical mysteries. They are brief, bright flashes of radio waves that last a few milliseconds. Despite happening frequently – thousands occur...

Posted on Sep 18, 2018 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Physics, Science, Space “I think I know how the universe was born,” said Andrei Linde, Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis...

“We’ve taken a major step back in time, beyond what we’d ever expected to be able to do with Hubble. We see GN-z11 at a time when the universe was...

Posted on Sep 13, 2018 in Astronomy, Science, Space “When you condense an entire Milky Way into a small spot because of a merger of galaxies, it can cause hundreds...

Posted on Sep 20, 2018 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Galaxies, Science, Space “This is one of the last great mysteries of the early universe,” said Kirk S. S. Barrow with...

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Science, Space In their quest to understand the universe, scientists are faced with some major unsolved puzzles. For example, stars move around...

Posted on Aug 17, 2018 “Our finding supports the current model for the evolution of our Universe, the ‘Lambda-cold-dark-matter model’ in which the elementary particles that make up the dark...

Posted on Aug 14, 2018 Scientists have known that more than 12 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, the gas in deep space was, on...

Posted on Jul 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...

Posted on Jul 27, 2018 in Astronomy, Science Galaxy outskirts likely hunting grounds for dying massive stars and black holes. Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further...

Posted on Jun 22, 2018 in Uncategorized Red nuggets are relics of the first massive galaxies that formed within only one billion years after the Big Bang. While most red...

“We have now simulated, for the first time, the RAR of dwarf galaxies on the assumption that dark matter exists,” explains Prof. Dr. Cristiano Porciani of the Argelander Institute for...

Posted on Jun 12, 2018 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science, Space, Universe Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a star-forming...