Black holes stunt growth of dwarf galaxies
UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formationCredit: HST/NASA/ESA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
Tag: Astronomy
The American Physical Society announces Historic Sites for 2019
The Historic Sites initiative recognizes landmarks significant to physics history across the United States.Credit: Adler Planetarium COLLEGE PARK, MD, October ...
Luciano Rezzolla awarded prestigious honorary professorship
The Goethe University physics professor to be Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Dublin Trinity CollegeCredit: Jürgen Lecher, Goethe University "The ...
New research sheds light on the ages of lunar ice deposits
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south ...
Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts,’ Hubble study finds
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow ...
The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor
UC Riverside-led research shows our galaxy is undergoing a massive merger with its largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic CloudCredit: ...
Physicists have found a way to ‘hear’ dark matter
Credit: Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas ...
Pressure runs high at edge of solar system
Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic ...
A dusty lab in the sky
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority. "The traditional astronomers -- the people ...
A cosmic pretzel
Twin baby stars grow amongst a twisting network of gas and dustCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al. The two baby ...
Three gravitational-wave detectors sign agreement to begin joint observation
Collaboration will enable pinpointing origin of gravitational-wave eventsCredit: ICRR The world's three principal gravitational-wave detectors -- LIGO in the U.S., ...
Massive filaments fuel the growth of galaxies and supermassive black holes
Credit: Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE An international group of scientists led by ...
The violent history of the big galaxy next door
Credit: Dougal Mackey, ANU Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighbouring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now ...
Gemini Observatory with NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
Two ancient migration events in the Andromeda Galaxy: Dynamical footprints uncovered by galactic archaeologists in galaxy next doorCredit: Australian National ...
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