Supermassive black hole eats, burps and naps0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2018
It’s not just us humans who get sleepy after big meals. Black holes do, too.
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Here Be Monsters: Study Identifies Likely Location of Merging Black Hole Giants0
- From Around the Web, Space
- 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.
Milky Way’s origins are not what they seem0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2017
“Our origins are much less local than we previously thought,” said Faucher-Giguère, a CIERA member. “This study gives us a sense of how things around us are connected to distant objects in the sky.”
There Might Be 100 Billion Brown Dwarfs in the Milky Way0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2017
A new study of a nearby cluster of newly formed stars reveals that brown dwarfs may rival stars in the Milky Way in number, with one brown dwarf for every two bona fide stars.
General relativity passes test at Milky Way’s central black hole0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 23, 2017
Einstein’s greatest theory has aced another test. Two stars are speeding around the big black hole at the Milky Way’s core in just the way his general theory of relativity predicted.
Astronomers see mysterious nitrogen area in a butterfly-shaped star formation disk0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2017
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in the north-west.
Scientists solve mystery of how most antimatter in the Milky Way forms0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 1, 2017
A team of international astrophysicists led by The Australian National University (ANU) has shown how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms.
Scientists measure brightness of the universe with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 21, 2017
Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.
Satellite galaxies at edge of Milky Way coexist with dark matter0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2017
Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a problematic structure.
The Milky Way’s black hole is spewing out planet-size ‘spitballs’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole’s powerful gravity rips the star apart, sending a long streamer of gas whipping outward.
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