Astronomers detect a black hole on the move
Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through spaceābut catching them in the act has proven difficult.
Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through spaceābut catching them in the act has proven difficult.
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Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), powered by starburst activity and often with supermassive black holes accreting material at their nuclei, contain large reservoirs of molecular gas. This is to be expected: Molecular ...
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One of the largest structures in the Milky Way galaxy, the North Polar Spur, was discovered at radio and X-ray wavelengths. The Spur is a giant ridge of bright emission that rises roughly perpendicularly out of the plane ...
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Mar 1, 2021
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The Milky Way's central molecular zone (CMZ) spans the innermost 1600 light-years of the galaxy (for comparison, the Sun is 26,600 light-years away from the galactic center) and includes a vast complex of molecular clouds ...
Astronomy
Feb 19, 2021
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It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2021
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Astronomers may have found our galaxy's first example of an unusual kind of stellar explosion. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, adds to the understanding of how some stars shatter and seed the universe ...
Astronomy
Feb 8, 2021
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About eighty-five percent of the matter in the cosmos emits neither light nor any other known kind of radiation as far as is known, and hence is called dark matter. One of its other notable qualities is that it only interacts ...
Astronomy
Feb 8, 2021
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Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies is difficult because so many different physical processes besides just gravity are involved, including processes associated with star formation and stellar radiation, ...
Astronomy
Feb 1, 2021
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They may be the youngest astronomers to make a discovery yet.
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Jan 28, 2021
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Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this month in the Astrophysical ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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