News tagged with radio emissions

The birth of a telescope 30 times larger than Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- On 15 November 2011, the Effelsberg 100-meter radio telescope, together with three Russian and one Ukrainian telescope, took part in the first interferometric observations with the orbiting ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Black holes spinning faster than ever before

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two UK astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the centre of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr Alejo Martinez-Sansigre ...

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created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Three-telescope interferometry allows astrophysicists to observe how black holes are fueled

(Phys.org) -- By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens ...

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created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth (Update 2)

The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

An Intriguing, Glowing Galaxy

A supermassive black hole may be responsible for the glowing appearance of galaxy 3C 305, located about 600 million light years away in the constellation Draco. Composite data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 1

ALMA turns its eyes to Centaurus A

(Phys.org) -- A new image of the galaxy Centaurus A, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows how the observatory allows astronomers to see through the opaque dust lanes that ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Astrophysicists discover new heating source in cosmological structure formation

(Phys.org) -- So far, astrophysicists thought that super-massive black holes can only influence their immediate surroundings. A collaboration of scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies ...

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Cluster collisions switch on radio halos

(PhysOrg.com) -- This is a composite image of the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth, showing the effects of a collision between two smaller galaxy ...

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created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists make first discovery using revolutionary long wavelength demonstrator array

Scientists from NRL's Space Science and Remote Sensing Divisions, in collaboration with researchers from the University of New Mexico and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Socorro, N.M., ...

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created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

An atlas of the Milky Way

Sino-German research group draws a new map at the Urumqi radio telescope and discovers two supernova remnants.

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created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

X-Ray Jets

(PhysOrg.com) -- The supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets of atomic particles.

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Allen Telescope Array begins all-sky surveys

(PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of ...

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Astronomers can tune in to radio auroras to find exoplanets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting exoplanets that orbit at large distances from their star remains a challenge for planet hunters. Now, scientists at the University of Leicester have shown that emissions from the ...

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created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Image: Black Hole Blows Big Bubble

This composite image shows a powerful microquasar produced by a black hole in the outskirts of the nearby (12.7 million light years) galaxy NGC 7793. The large image contains data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Pushing the envelope

(PhysOrg.com) -- G327.1-1.1 is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Milky Way galaxy.

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created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1