All Galaxies Take a Billion Years to Rotate. Which Is Really Cool, and Totally Weird.0
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- April 10, 2018
Big or small, dense or empty, it’s one thing they all share.
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Cosmic Clocks: Galaxies Behave Like Clocks, Rotating Once Every Billion Years0
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- March 16, 2018
An international team of astronomers from Australia, China and the United States has discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are.
The Arrhythmic Beating of a Black Hole Heart0
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- March 10, 2018
At the center of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, there is a large elliptical galaxy called NGC 4696. Deeper still, there is a supermassive black hole buried within the core of this galaxy.
A peculiar galactic clash0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 8, 2018
Galaxies are not static islands of stars — they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe. Sometimes, as seen in this spectacular Hubble image of Arp 256, galaxies can collide in a crash of cosmic proportions.
Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolve0
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- January 12, 2018
Scientists have solved a cosmic mystery by finding evidence that supermassive black holes prevent stars forming in some smaller galaxies.
One of the Oldest and Most Distant Objects in the Universe Has Been Discovered0
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- November 21, 2017
A star-forming galaxy 12.8 billion light-years away offers insight into the early days of our universe after the Big Bang roughly 13.7 billion years ago.
An Enormous Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out Of Nowhere0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 17, 2017
Astrophysicists inspecting the skies just got a massive surprise. They discovered a huge galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, haven’t seen before.
Ancient spiral galaxy is 11 billion years old0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 15, 2017
New observation could give insight into how such star systems sprout arms
Here Be Monsters: Study Identifies Likely Location of Merging Black Hole Giants0
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- November 4, 2017
Scientists on the hunt for colliding black holes should turn their eyes to the quiet, outer regions of galaxies like the Milky Way, a new study suggests.
Astronomers Find Record-Breaking Oxygen-Deficient Galaxy0
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- September 28, 2017
The oxygen level in J0811+4730, a star-forming dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, some 630 million light-years away, is the lowest yet discovered in any star-forming galaxy, according to an international team of astronomers from the University of Virginia and the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.
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