Galaxy winds as a research area investigates large-scale gaseous outflows driven by processes within galaxies, such as stellar feedback from massive stars and supernovae or energy and momentum injection from active galactic nuclei. This field focuses on the multi-phase structure, kinematics, and energetics of these winds, their impact on galaxy evolution, star formation regulation, metal enrichment of the circumgalactic and intergalactic media, and the closing of the baryon cycle. Research combines observational diagnostics across the electromagnetic spectrum with theoretical modeling and simulations to quantify mass-loading factors, escape fractions, and the coupling between radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and outflowing gas.
For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82, a nearby galaxy undergoing an extraordinary burst of star formation. The ...
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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has mapped a magnetic highway driving a powerful galactic wind into the nearby galaxy merger of Arp 220, revealing for the ...
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Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), an international team of astronomers has discovered a spectacular bipolar outflow from the disk of a nearby galaxy known as ESO 130-G012. The finding was reported ...
By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected the outflow of a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1266. Results of the new study, presented ...
Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into ...
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Dec 26, 2025
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Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study.
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An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant galaxy designated SXDF-NB1006-2. As a result, they found that SXDF-NB1006-2 is a young starburst galaxy that experiences ...
Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have conducted deep observations of a massive galaxy known as NGC 5746. As a result, they detected a hot gaseous outflow in the galaxy. The new findings, presented Oct. 1 on the ...
In a distant galaxy called Makani, particles of dust were warmed by the light of newborn stars before being flung out into space by a massive starburst-driven wind. Over the course of 100 million years, the dust traveled ...
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Sep 3, 2025
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Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). A team of astronomers led by European Space Agency researcher ...
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