Scientists Detect Dark Galaxies for the First Time
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that they have detected dark galaxies by observing their glow as…
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that they have detected dark galaxies by observing their glow as…
With help from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now believe reionization is to blame for the relatively small number of stars found in the extremely…
While studying dwarf galaxies, David Nicholls from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics discovered that that the energies of the electrons in the gas…
Using interferometric measurements to achieve extremely high angular resolutions, the RadioAstron mission will enable astronomers to study scientific topics like particle acceleration near supermassive black…
A filament of dark matter, which works like the Universe’s backbone, and dictates where galaxies can form, was observed for the first time by astronomers…
Scientists have been monitoring radio signals from the galaxy Arp 220, located 250 million light years from Earth, and now believe the radio emissions may…
A new image made up of exposures taken in visible and infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows galaxy DDO 82, which is…
Astronomers have discovered an arc of light behind a galaxy cluster that is 5 to 10 times larger than other clusters from that early of…
Using data from the Subaru Telescope and optical spectroscopy from the W. M. Keck Observatory, astronomers concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220 developed…
New images from European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope show detailed images of NGC 6357, which contains a cluster of high-mass stars whose inhabitants are…
Though separated by tens of millions of light-years, a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a pair of galaxies that seem to be…
Located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, galaxy UGC 5497 is a compact blue dwarf galaxy with fast-burning stars that will…
Using the IRAM interferometer on the Plateau de Bure, scientists from the Max Planck Institute were able to accurately measure the distance of galaxy HDF850.1,…
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
Limited by today’s telescope technology, an international team of astronomers searched for another way to probe supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. By analyzing data…
Using observations made with radio telescopes, astronomer Dr. Braun has discovered that the galaxies around us are hiding about a third more atomic hydrogen gas…
This new image of spiral galaxy ESO 498-G5 was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and shows the disc-type bulges, or pseudobulges, that this type…