News tagged with gravitational interactions

Space Image: Ring of fire

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Astrophysicists report first simulation to create a Milky Way-like galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- After nine months of number-crunching on a powerful supercomputer, a beautiful spiral galaxy matching our own Milky Way emerged from a computer simulation of the physics involved in galaxy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Does Asteroid Vesta have a moon?

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on Vesta, and from now until the ion-powered spacecraft goes into orbit in mid-July, every picture of the giant asteroid will be the best one ever taken. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Dark statistics

The hypothetical dark flow seen in the movement of galaxy clusters requires that we can reliably identify a clear statistical correlation in the motion of distant objects which are, in any case, flowing o ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 15

The 'Eye of Sauron'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spiral galaxy NGC 4151 is dubbed the "Eye of Sauron" for its similarity to the malevolent eye in "The Lord of the Rings."

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

The superwind galaxy NGC 4666 (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Did 'Dark Gulping' Generate Black Holes in Early Universe?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A process called ‘dark gulping’ may solve the mystery of the how supermassive black holes were able to form when the Universe was less than a billion years old.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 10

Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4