The Sky Tonight

January 18, 2016

Scientists find evidence of second biggest black hole in Milky Way
Minato, Japan (UPI) Jan 15, 2016
A team of astronomers in Japan have discovered evidence of what they call an "intermediate mass" black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The findings may offer insights to the birth and evolution of supermassive black holes found in the center of nearly all large galaxies. Researchers were clued in to the possible presence of a black hole by an unusual gas cloud called CO-0.40-0.22. The gas cloud intrigued scientists because its gas appeared to be moving at a wide range of ve ... read more

Previous Issues

Jan 15

Jan 14

Jan 13

Jan 12

Jan 11

Audi joins Google Lunar XPrize competition Audi is lending its engineering talents to a team of scientists in the Google Lunar XPrize competition. Together, the German auto makers and the "Part-Time Scientists" are optimizing a moon rover called the "Audi lunar quattro." ... more		'Most luminous galaxy' in the universe is ripping itself apart Researchers recently discovered the universe's "most luminous galaxy" to be one of the most violently turbulent. "So chaotic that it is ripping itself apart," said astronomer Tanio Diaz-Santos. ... more		A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind ESA's XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce new stars. It is not unusual to find ... more
				Exposed ice on Rosetta's comet confirmed as water Observations made shortly after Rosetta's arrival at its target comet in 2014 have provided definitive confirmation of the presence of water ice. Although water vapour is the main gas seen flo ... more		New theory of secondary inflation expands options for dark matter excess Standard cosmology - that is, the Big Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as inflation - is the prevailing scientific model for our universe, in which the entirety of space ... more

Cosmic blast could help crack the case of extreme supernova explosions Records are made to be broken, as the expression goes, but rarely are records left so thoroughly in the dust. Stunned astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion about 200 times more powerful than ... more		Counting Photons; How Low Can You Go The process of detecting light-whether with our eyes, cameras or other devices-is at the heart of a wide range of civilian and military applications, including light or laser detection and ranging ( ... more		HawkEye 360 expands signals intelligence network with operational deployment of Cluster 12 York confirms successful deployment and health of 21 satellites for SDA Tranche 1 mission Spain faces uphill battle to cut Israel military ties: experts		Exposed ice on Rosetta's comet confirmed as water Observations made shortly after Rosetta's arrival at its target comet in 2014 have provided definitive confirmation of the presence of water ice. Although water vapour is the main gas seen flowing f ... more
				Nitrogen May Be A Sign of Habitability We might commonly think of Earth as having an oxygen-dominated atmosphere, but in reality the molecule makes up only a fifth of our air. Most of what surrounds us is nitrogen, at 78 percent. Astrobi ... more		First light for future black hole probe Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. During its first observations, GRAVITY successfully combined starligh ... more

Military Radar Summit 2016 - Washington DC - February 29

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Green pea galaxy provides insights to early universe evolution Newly formed dwarf galaxies were likely the reason that the universe heated up about 13 billion years ago, according to new work by an international team of scientists that included a University of ... more		Gravitational wave rumors ripple through science world Rumors are rippling through the science world that physicists may have detected gravitational waves, a key element of Einstein's theory which if confirmed would be one of the biggest discoveries of our time. ... more		Climate change causing havoc with global water cycle: UN Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study		Time running out for comet probe Philae Scientists will send a few final prods to robot lab Philae, incommunicado on the surface of a comet hurtling through space, but hopes for a reply are running out, they said Tuesday. ... more
Space Protection - A Financial Primer Last week, Space News aired a timely and important article by Mike Gruss on "Satellites in the Crosshairs." We rarely hear details about the highly classified arena of activities known as Space Prot ... more		All-antiferromagnetic memory could get digital data storage in a spin If you haven't already heard of antiferromagnetic spintronics it won't be long before you do. This relatively unused class of magnetic materials could be about to transform our digital lives. They h ... more		Physicists propose the first scheme to teleport the memory of an organism In "Star Trek", a transporter can teleport a person from one location to a remote location without actually making the journey along the way. Such a transporter has fascinated many people. Quantum t ... more		Abrupt excitation phenomenon in high-temperature plasma At the National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science, researchers have developed the high-energy heavy ion beam probe, in order to perform potential measurement insid ... more

	New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which recently reached its lowes ... more		The most energetic light ever observed from a few kilometers large star Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected from the neutr ... more

Tariff uncertainty delays World Cup orders for China's merch makers

EU business lobby head says China rare earths snag persists

IEA feels the heat as Washington pushes pro-oil agenda

Runaway stars leave infrared waves		NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation		Lunar mission moves a step closer		A New Way to Explore Dark Matter		First global age map of the Milky Way
Vietnam army probes mysterious 'space balls'		Novel metasurface revolutionizes ubiquitous scientific tool		Dawn imaging in close Ceres orbit		Hubble Sees a Supermassive and Super-hungry Galaxy		Quiet quasar has apparently eaten its fill

Student-Built Experiment Integrated onto NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

Most distant massive galaxy cluster identified

Ancient Gas Cloud May Be Relic from First Stars

Galaxy Quakes Could Improve Hunt for Dark Matter

Black hole affecting galactic climate

Last-chance bid to contact space robot Philae

Can we use magnetic fields to make and manipulate gravity?

Former COD Student Working in Antarctica on IceCube Neutrino Project

Getting Down to Earth with Space Hazards

Momentum builds for creation of 'moon villages'

Lab discovery gives glimpse of conditions found on other planets

Physicists offer theories to explain mysterious collision at Large Hadron Collider

NASA's Chandra Finds Supermassive Black Hole Burping Nearby

Galactic merger reveals an unusual black hole that has shed its stars

AAVSO observers contribute to understanding the black hole binary V404 Cygni

'Seeing' black holes with the naked eye

NASA Telescopes Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae

VLA Reveals New Evidence About Star, Planet Formation

Bacteria, electrons spin in similar patterns

40-Year-Old Mystery on Size of Shadowy Galaxies Solved

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2016 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.