News tagged with intergalactic gas

Turbulence responsible for black holes' balancing act

We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and ...

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Herschel reveals galaxy-packed filament

(Phys.org) -- A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster

(Phys.org) -- Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Recycling galaxies caught in the act

(PhysOrg.com) -- When astronomers add up all the gas and dust contained in ordinary galaxies like our own Milky Way, they stumble on a puzzle: There is not nearly enough matter for stars to be born at the ...

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created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Stars made from galactic recycling material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ordinary galaxies such as our own Milky Way contain a plethora of gas and dust. Nevertheless, there is not nearly enough matter to explain how galaxies produce new stars at the observed rates ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Dark matter core defies explanation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 87 | with audio podcast

A galactic magnetic field in a lab bolsters astrophysical theory

Why is the universe magnetized? It's a question scientists have been asking for decades. Now, an international team of researchers including a University of Michigan professor have demonstrated that it could ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

A tale of tails

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of astronomers led by Tom Scott at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain, has discovered extraordinarily long one-sided gaseous tails ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Gaseous halos of galaxies are much larger, more massive than the distribution of stars within the galaxy

New, high-precision equipment orbiting Earth aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is now sending such rich data back to astronomers, some feel they are crossing the final frontier toward understanding galaxy ...

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created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Hubble confirms: galaxies are ultimate recyclers

(PhysOrg.com) -- New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. ...

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created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 80 | with audio podcast

Distant galaxies reveal the clearing of the cosmic fog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to probe the early Universe at several different times as it was becoming transparent to ultraviolet light. This brief but dramatic phase in ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast


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