By piecing together an increasing number of clues, cosmologists are getting closer to understanding what the future and ultimate fate of the universe will be. And I'm afraid the news is not good. Star formation will cease ...
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2015
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Rogue stars are moving so quickly they're leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the universe could this happen?
Astronomy
Aug 25, 2015
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Supernovas just might be the maid service of the universe.
Astronomy
May 26, 2015
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The new movie "Interstellar" explores a longstanding fascination, but UA astrophysicists are using cutting-edge technology to go one better. They're working on how to take pictures of the black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2014
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We all fear black holes, but how many of them are there out there, really? Between the stellar mass black holes and the supermassive ones, just how much of our Universe is black holes?
Astronomy
Jun 17, 2014
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Contradicting past theories, cold gas has been found in abundance in some elliptical galaxies—showing that there must be some other explanation why these types of galaxies don't form new stars. Astronomers believe that ...
Astronomy
Feb 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —During its five-year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in ...
Astronomy
Aug 21, 2013
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The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma Ray Observatory has begun formal operations at its site in Mexico. HAWC is designed to study the origin of very high-energy cosmic rays and observe the most energetic objects ...
Astronomy
Aug 21, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Scientists Fabio Antonini, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and David Merritt, of the Rochester Institute of Technology, have developed a new theory that explains the orbits of the massive ...
Astronomy
Jun 5, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
Astronomy
May 7, 2012
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