“Cosmic Web Stripping” – A New Way of Explaining the Lack of Observed Dwarf Galaxies
An international team of researchers has identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the lack of observed dwarf galaxies as compared with…
An international team of researchers has identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the lack of observed dwarf galaxies as compared with…
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists detail the discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes,…
Scientists were able to study the deformation of the sheath of electrons and ions enveloping Venus for the first time. In rare events, the sheath…
This new composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows superbubble DEM L50, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years…
In a newly published study, a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory suggest that the recently discovered twin lobes of gamma-ray emission protruding…
Astrophysicists at the University of Vermont have identified a pulsar that is able to quiet its radio waves while at the same time making its…
A newly published study from the University of Alberta examines what happens when binary stars come together in a common envelope, provides a way to…
University of Oslo’s leading theorist in astroparticle physics, Are Raklev, has launched a model that explains what dark matter may consist of and how one…
Using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array, scientists led by Sebastien Muller have made the most precise measurement ever of how the universe has cooled…
Astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society suggest that two compact stellar remnants, such as black holes or neutron stars, collided and released a large gamma-ray…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a series of computations that will shed new light on some of the…
A study from astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology suggests that black holes have been growing much faster than previously thought. Astronomers from Swinburne…
A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows Lupus 3, a cloud that contains huge amounts of cool cosmic dust and a place where…
A new video from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that is 12 miles in diameter, located about 1,000 light-years…
At 4 billion light-years in length, the Large Quasar Group (LQG) is the largest known structure in the universe and is some 1600 times larger…
According to a new study presented at the American Astronomical Society, one in six stars has an Earth-sized planet in an orbit of 85 days…
Based on data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission, a team of international astronomers has declared barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 the largest-known spiral galaxy….
While using the 305-meter William E. Gordon Telescope at Arecibo, researchers discovered an outburst in spiral galaxy NGC 660 that was ten times brighter than…