galaxies
Tracing Dark Matter with Ripples in the Whirlpool Galaxy
[/caption]A new paper presented at this week's American Astronomical Society conference promises to shine some light, so to speak, on…
Little Galaxies Are Big on Dark Matter
[/caption] Dark matter... It came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang. Within its confines, galaxies formed and…
A Star-Making Blob from the Cosmic Dawn
[/caption] Looking back in time with some of our best telescopes, astronomers have found one of the most distant and…
How Can Growing Galaxies Stay Silent?
[/caption] Beginning around 2005, astronomers began discovering the presence of very large galaxies at a distance of around 10 billion…
First Look at a Black Hole’s Feast
A true heart of darkness lies at the center of our galaxy: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star") is a supermassive black…
Mapping The Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields – The Faraday Sky
[/caption] Kudos to the scientists at the Max Planck Institut and an international team of radio astronomers for an incredibly…
Pinning The Tails On Galaxy Clusters
[/caption] When it comes to understanding how galaxies behave both inside and outside of galaxy clusters, it would seem that…
Astronomers Find the Most Supermassive Black Holes Yet
[/caption] For years, astronomer Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin have been…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Could Dark Matter Not Matter?
[/caption] You probably want to put on your skeptical goggles and set them to maximum for this one. An Italian…
Astronomers Discover Ancient ‘Ultra-Red’ Galaxies
[/caption]A team of astronomers, led by Jiasheng Huang (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered four…