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Tail of stray black hole hiding in the Milky Way
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
It is difficult to find black holes, because they are completely black. In some cases black holes cause effects which can be seen. For example if a black hole h...
Celestial cat meets cosmic lobster
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
NGC 6334 is located about 5500 light-years away from Earth, while NGC 6357 is more remote, at a distance of 8000 light-years. Both are in the constellation of S...
Mind the Gap: Rapid Burster behaviour explained
Feb 01, 2017 (ESA)
Scientists observing a curious neutron star in a binary system known as the 'Rapid Burster' may have solved a forty-year-old mystery surrounding its puzzling X-...
A New Tool to Study Galaxy Evolution
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
RemoveYoung is a new tool developed by Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) astronomers Jean Michel Gomes and Polychronis Papaderos. It is designe...
Tracing the Cosmic Web with Remote Star-Forming Galaxies
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
A research group led by Hiroshima University has revealed a picture of the increasing fraction of massive star-forming galaxies in the distant universe. Massive...
Both push and pull drive our galaxy's race through space
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
Although we can't feel it, we're in constant motion: the earth spins on its axis at about 1,600 km/h; it orbits around the sun at about 100,000 km/h; the sun or...
NASA's fermi sees gamma rays from 'hidden' solar flares
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar eruptions located on the far side of the sun...
Chiral quantum optics is a new research field with bright perspectives
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
Recently, surprising physical effects were observed using special microscopic waveguides for light. Such "photonic structures" currently are revolutionizing the...
NASA's fermi discovers the most extreme blazars yet
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black h...
Cosmic dust that formed our planets traced to giant stars
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists have identified the origin of key stardust grains present in the dust cloud from which the planets in our Solar System formed, a study suggests. Rese...
Rapid gas flares discovered in white dwarf star for the first time
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Incredibly rapid gas flares from a white dwarf binary star system have been detected for the first time by Oxford University scientists. The first sighting of s...
NuSTAR finds new clues to 'chameleon supernova'
Jan 25, 2017 (JPL)
"We're made of star stuff," astronomer Carl Sagan famously said. Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars generated much of the material that makes up o...
Keck will peer deep into the cosmic web with new spectrograph
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
W. M. Keck Observatory (Keck Observatory) is pushing the cutting edge of scientific discovery with the addition of the world's most sensitive instrument for mea...
Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has discovered one of the bri...
eROSITA travels to Russia for launch into deep space in 2018
Jan 23, 2017 (SPX)
On 20 January 2017, the completed eROSITA X-ray telescope boarded a cargo plane and was transported from Munich, where it had been built at the Max Planck Insti...
Hunting for dark matter with massive magnets and haloscopes
Jan 23, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists at the Institute for Basic Science in Seoul, South Korea, have designed powerful magnets to hunt for the axion, a theoretical particle that could be ...
Work Begins in Palo Alto on NASA's Dark Energy Hunter
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin is helping NASA begin the hunt for dark energy, a mysterious force powering the universe's accelerating expansion. An instrument assembly the co...
A tale of two pulsars' tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers
Jan 19, 2017 (SPX)
Like cosmic lighthouses sweeping the universe with bursts of energy, pulsars have fascinated and baffled astronomers since they were first discovered 50 years a...
Contracts Signed for ELT Mirrors and Sensors
Jan 19, 2017 (SPX)
At a ceremony at ESO's Headquarters four contracts were signed for major components of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) that ESO is building. These were for:...
Galaxy murder mystery
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
It's the big astrophysical whodunnit. Across the Universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what's killing them? New rese...
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