Masers as Evolutionary Indicators for Star Formation
SAO astronomers provide the first unambiguous evidence that Class I masers may be excited by both young (hot core) and older (UC H II) MYSOs…
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Hubble Data Reveals That Globular Clusters Age at Different Rates
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists discovered that globular clusters of the same age can have dramatically different distributions of blue straggler stars…
Survey Reveals “Ultramassive” Black Holes Weighing 40 billion Times the Mass of the Sun
A new survey of 18 giant black holes shows that the biggest black holes may be even bigger than previously thought, with several weighing between…
X-Rays From LCLS Help Explain Cosmic Phenomena
An international team of scientists used X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source to study and dissected a process in multi-million-degree space plasmas that produces…
Survey of Galaxies Reveals Supermassive Black Holes
Using data from Chandra observations of 62 nearby galaxies and data from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey, scientists have shown that 37 of the…
Study Challenges the Idea That a Supernova Prompted the Formation of the Solar System
By testing meteorites, a team of scientists discovered that levels of iron 60 were uniform and low in early solar system material, suggesting that that…
First Detection of Radio-Emitting Jets from a Stellar-Mass Black Hole Outside Our Galaxy
A newly published study reveals the first detection of radio-emitting jets moving at more than 85 percent the speed of light from a stellar-mass black…
Black Holes Have Properties That Resemble the Dynamics of Solids and Liquids
New research showing that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids may help scientists better understand black holes and…
Disk Around Protostar L1527 IRS Behaves Like a Proto Solar-System
Using the Submillimeter Array and another radio telescope to study the disk around protostar L1527 IRS, astronomers were able to measure properties of the circumstellar…
Saturn-Like Rings May Have Formed Solar System’s Moons
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still encircling Saturn, and this could apply to many of the…
Herschel and Keck Reveal Previously Unseen Starburst Galaxies
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomers characterized 767 previously unseen starburst…
New Finding Challenges Theories of How Rocky, Earth-Scale Planets Form
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf and found that the…
New Observation of Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster Abell 520
A newly published study from astronomers at Ohio University shows that the core of Abell 520 does not appear to be over-dense in dark matter…
Hubble and VLA View Elliptical Galaxy Hercules A
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope combine to create this image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A, also known as 3C…
Atomic Gas Superfluid Might Help Model the Early Cosmos
Quantum physicists have shown that superfluid gases can conduct without experiencing any resistance, possibly paving the way to help model the early Universe in the…
Massive Black Hole is 17 Billion Times Our Sun’s Mass
A massive black hole, measuring 17 billion times our sun’s mass and more than 11 times as wide as Neptune’s orbit around the sun, could…
Graphite Experiment Shines New Light on Laser-Driven Nuclear Fusion and Astrophysics
A newly published study, which examines how energy is shared between the different species of matter and how it is transferred from strongly heated electrons…
Scientists Discover the Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any that has been observed to date. Data reveals that a…
