The Milky Way galaxy has a clumpy halo
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business.
Astronomy
Oct 19, 2020
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News tagged with baryonic matter
Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe.
General Physics
Jun 20, 2018
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Two separate teams of astronomers find evidence of missing Baryonic matter
(Phys.org)—Two teams working independently have found evidence of the existence of missing Baryonic matter—particles that link galaxies together. One team was made of members from the Institute of Space Astrophysics, ...
Hydrogen halo lifts the veil of our galactic home
Sometimes it takes a lot of trees to see the forest. In the case of the latest discovery made by astronomers at the University of Arizona, exactly 732,225. Except that in this case, the "forest" is a veil of diffuse hydrogen ...
Astronomy
Apr 18, 2017
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Physicists suggest possible existence of other kinds of dark matter
(Phys.org) —A team of Harvard University physicists has proposed the possible existence of a type of dark matter not described by current physics models. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, ...
Astronomers map dark matter distribution in 3D in Abell 383 galaxy cluster
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes to map the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 383, which is located about 2.3 ...
Astronomy
Mar 14, 2012
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Astronomers carry out largest ever cosmological computer simulation
An international team of astronomers has carried out what is believed to be the largest ever cosmological computer simulation, tracking not only dark but also ordinary matter (such as planets, stars and galaxies), giving ...
Astronomy
Oct 23, 2023
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Why are dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies so odd?
A study co-led by physicists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine has found that dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies are very odd, raising questions about physicists' understanding of galaxy formation and the structure of ...
Astronomy
Sep 12, 2022
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Algorithm simulates the intergalactic medium of the universe
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) led the development of a new numerical procedure to reproduce the intergalactic medium obtained from a cosmological simulation of 100,000 hours of computation using big data ...
Astronomy
Jun 7, 2022
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NASA's Roman mission will test competing cosmic acceleration theories
A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of galaxies strewn across space and time. The mission's ...
Astronomy
Mar 22, 2022
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