Astronomers Make the Most Precise Measurement Yet of the Expanding Universe
Using 140,000 distant quasars, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have made the most precise measurement to date of the expanding Universe. The Baryon…
Using 140,000 distant quasars, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have made the most precise measurement to date of the expanding Universe. The Baryon…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CfA scientists examined 264,283 galaxies and measured the signature of the acoustic waves left behind. Perhaps the…
As the gas cloud, called G2, edges closer to the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, astronomers at Northwestern University are hoping to learn new information…
Researchers have measured the mass of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster, calculating the cluster’s mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the…
New maps from the Fermi-LAT Collaboration show that the galactic center produces more high-energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources, suggesting that…
Using the Altair adaptive optics system with the Gemini North Telescope, two NOAO astronomers were able to observe the shell of escaping material around the…
By comparing the predictions of state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations with the results of sophisticated statistical analyses of the cosmic background radiation, two independent studies are challenging…
Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered huge young star clusters around a black hole in the center of galaxy NGC 2110. Huge young…
Scientists have developed a new method for analyzing the pressure experienced by tiny samples of organic material that may have been ejected from dying stars,…
Using gravitational lensing, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measured the spectra of carbon, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and water in a galaxy seen a…
A surprise discovery shows that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings, making it the smallest object discovered to have…
New theoretical research suggests that quintessence and phantom fields, two of the many theories that try to explain the nature of dark energy, are only…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are piecing together the evolution of supermassive black holes. How do you grow a supermassive black…
A newly published study details the discovery of the closest type Ia supernova discovered in a generation, the discovery of SN 2014J in the nearby…
An international team of astronomers has solved a decades old space mystery, revealing a new theory for how collapsed stars become polluted. Scientists from the…
New research shows the similarities that neutron stars have with black holes. For astrophysicists, neutron stars are extremely complex astronomical objects. Research conducted with the…
In a newly published study, researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne analyzed the light given off by 580 supernova explosions in the nearby…
This newly released image combines X-ray coverage from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory with an infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to show the star-forming…