NuSTAR probes puzzling galaxy merger
A supermassive black hole inside a tiny galaxy is challenging scientists' ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one.
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Astronomers investigate a mysterious isolated star cluster complex
(Phys.org)—Astronomers have inspected a mysterious isolated star cluster complex designated SH2 in the galaxy NGC 1316 (also known as Fornax A). The results of their study, which were published Mar. 1 in a paper on arXiv.org, ...
Running away from Einstein
Einstein's theory of gravity may have to be rewritten, after researchers at the University of St Andrews found a gigantic ring of galaxies darting away from us much faster than predicted.
Astronomy
Mar 16, 2017
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Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole
Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around a likely black hole twice an hour. This could be the tightest orbital dance ever seen by a black hole and a companion star in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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First ultra-compact dwarf galaxy in the group NGC 5044 found
(Phys.org)—A team of astronomers led by Favio Faifer of the National University of La Plata, Argentina, has discovered the first ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxy in an X-ray bright galaxy group designated NGC 5044. The ...
Mysterious faint object detected in the vicinity of a quadruply lensed quasar
(Phys.org)—Astronomers have spotted a mysterious faint object in the vicinity of a quadruply lensed quasar designated MG 0414+0534. The object, which was discovered using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
Dwarf galaxies shed light on dark matter
The first sighting of clustered dwarf galaxies bolsters a leading theory about how big galaxies such as our Milky Way are formed, and how dark matter binds them, researchers said Monday.
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Detecting the intense green glow from the youngest galaxies to determine galactic evolution
Galaxies in the young universe were forming stars at 10- to 50-times higher rates than their modern-day counterparts, such as our Milky Way. A recent study has found that they were not merely scaled up versions of star-forming ...
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Jan 9, 2017
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Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar
One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years ...
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Image: False-colour view of galaxy M81
An important part of studying celestial objects is understanding and removing the background noise.
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