103 results for "quasars"

Posted on Jul 20, 2020 in Astronomy, Dark Energy, Galaxies, Science, Space It’s been said that maps codify the miracle of existence. Often referred to as the “cosmic genome” project,...

Posted on Jun 1, 2020 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Science The coronavirus pandemic provided a pair of astronomers the free time to travel back through archives of old 1997 data...

“Eventually we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes –there we measure shadows, and we search among the ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial,” said...

Posted on Aug 9, 2022 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Science All the light in the observable universe provides about as much illumination as a 60-watt bulb seen from 2.5 miles...

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Milky Way Galaxy, Science Hubble’s infrared eye unveiled an enormous flash from Milky Way’s black hole about 3.5 million years ago...

Posted on Jun 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science, Space, Universe When the iconic black hole the size of our Solar System at the center of Galaxy M87 was...

Posted on Apr 27, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science “Our standard model of cosmology is based on an isotropic universe, one that is the same, statistically, in all directions,” says...

Posted on Apr 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “The new object, which appeared in May 2009, has left us scratching our heads — we’ve never seen anything quite like this...

Posted on Apr 21, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Space “WFIRST’s surveys don’t require that we know exactly where and when to look to make exciting discoveries—we won’t be limited to...

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Astronomy, News, Science, Space “Vulcan Heat” –Mercury’s Gigantic Ice-Making Paradox Ghostly “Axiogenesis” –Solves Enduring Mystery of Excess Matter in the Universe Quantum Death –“Human...

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 in Science “A Very Strange Planet” –Tiny Zigzag Reveals a Secret Buried in Uranus Voyager 2 Data Irreversibility of Time –“Hidden in the Basic Laws...

Posted on Feb 22, 2020 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science, Universe Is life on earth, and perhaps the Milky Way, due to the alpha, the fine-structure constant, the coupling constant...

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Physics, Science “At first, we thought it was absurd. How else could you respond to the idea that black holes generate...

Posted on Jan 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Science Although the type of particle that makes up dark matter is still a mystery, a NASA team using the Hubble...

Posted on Dec 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Universe “The gates of hell, the end of space and time,” was how black holes were described at the press conference...

“I have absolutely no clue what dark energy is. Dark energy appears strong enough to push the entire universe – yet its source is unknown, its location is unknown and...

“While the Hubble Constant is constant everywhere in space at a given time, it is not constant in time.” explains Chris Fassnacht, professor of physics at UC Davis about the...

“Primordial black holes (PBHs) remain hypothetical objects for the moment,” says Alvise Raccanelli of CERN. “Initially proposed by Stephen Hawking in 1971, they have come back to the fore in...

Posted on May 21, 2021 in Astronomy, Physics, Science, Space “It’s surprising that any galaxy can change its look on human time scales,” said astronomer Sara Frederick at the University...

Posted on Aug 9, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Physics, Science, Space Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed what may be the most distant shrouded supermassive black hole,...

Posted on Aug 7, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “What we believe we are seeing is a rare but important step in the life of these galactic beasts during galaxy...

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science, Space Scientists have known for almost a century that the universe is expanding, meaning the distance between galaxies across the...

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Dark Energy, Physics, Science, Space Justin Khoury,  physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, has proposed one possible reason why dark energy particles have yet...

Posted on Jul 26, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Physics, Science, Space This image of microquasar SS 433, first discovered forty years ago, located about 18 000 light-years away in...

The discovery of black holes was the first collision of quantum gravity with general relativity. In 2019, astrophysicists at Ontario’s Western University found evidence for the direct formation of black...

Posted on Jun 24, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science A team of researchers using the Subaru Telescope identified the outermost edge of the Milky Way –the boundary of the stellar...

Posted on Jun 26, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Cosmology, Science Black holes are “a one-way door out of our universe,” said Event Horizon Telescope director and astronomer Sheperd S....

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 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmos, Science, Space The neutral hydrogen gas that filled the universe during the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang absorbed...

Posted on Mar 25, 2019 in Science “The first light of the universe might imply the existence of an important population of more exotic objects like faint quasars, X-ray binary...

We don’t know where they’re coming from or when they’ll occur. All we know is these blazingly bright bursts of low-frequency radiation that emit more energy than the sun does...

Posted on Mar 29, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Physics, Science “Inconveniently, dark matter is “dark” in the sense that it hardly interacts with anything, particularly with light. Apparently, in some...

Posted on Mar 9, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science There’s a crisis brewing in the cosmos. Measurements over the past few years of the distances and velocities of faraway...

Posted on Mar 5, 2019 Six European Southern Observatories (ESO)  astronomers tell us about the hottest topics in astronomy. Covering topics ranging from dark universe to distant quasars, exoplanets, globular...

Posted on Feb 6, 2019 “Our part of the Milky Way is ringing like a bell,” said Brian Yanny, with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 2012. “But we have...

Posted on Jan 10, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “That’s something we have been looking for a long time,” said lead author Xiaohui Fan at the University of Arizona. “We don’t...

Observational cosmologists are actively searching for a “new physics” that may solve the enduring enigma of our rapidly expanding Universe. Quasars, the ancient cores of galaxies where a supermassive black...

Posted on Jan 23, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “The Hubble constant anchors the physical scale of the universe,” said Simon Birrer, an astronomer at UCLA. Without a precise value for...

Posted on Dec 18, 2018 A fossil cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, that reveals how the first galaxies were formed, has been discovered in the distant universe...

“SS 433 is an unusual star system and each year something new has come out about it,” said Segev BenZvi, physicist at the University of Rochester. “This new observation of...

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, Science, Space “We thought, ‘That was weird,'” said Casey Law, assistant research astronomer in the Department of Astronomy at the University...

Posted on Apr 18, 2021 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Physics, Science, Space “If this monster was at the center of the Milky Way it would likely make life on Earth...

Posted on Aug 16, 2018 in Astronomy, Discovery, Physics, Science, Space “We started asking ourselves why we had not found it earlier, because it’s very extreme in its properties and...

Posted on Jul 9, 2018 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Hole, Universe A newly discovered quasar’s light has been traveling nearly 13 billion of the universe’s 13.7 billion years to reach...

Posted on Jun 22, 2018 Ordinary, baryonic, matter exists in the vast spaces between galaxies as highly-ionized oxygen gas at temperatures of about 1 million degrees Celsius. To pin down...

Posted on May 23, 2018 in Dark Matter, Galaxies, Space Dark galaxies are essentially devoid of stars, therefore they don’t emit any light that telescopes can catch. This makes them...

Posted on Feb 8, 2017 Quantum entanglement may appear to be closer to science fiction than anything in our physical reality. But according to the laws of quantum mechanics —...

Posted on Dec 12, 2016 “The quasars observed in the early universe resemble giant babies in a delivery room full of normal infants,” observed Avi Loeb of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center...

Posted on Aug 23, 2016 Our solar system is in a unique area of the universe that’s conducive to life, says John Webb and his colleagues at the University of...

"While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this "large quasar group" (LQG), we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe,"...