galaxies
This Galaxy is the Very Definition of “Flocculent”
I know you're Googling "flocculent" right now, unless you happen to be a chemist, or maybe a home brewer. You…
A Huge Wave is Passing Through the Milky Way Unleashing New Stellar Nurseries
Stars are formed within large clouds of gas and dust known as stellar nurseries. While star formation was once seen…
Planetary Mass Objects Discovered in Other Galaxies
A team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma have discovered "planetary mass bodies" outside of the Milky Way. They…
How Spiral Galaxies Get Their Shape
Spiral galaxies are an iconic form. They're used in product logos and all sorts of other places. We even live…
Astronomers Find a Galaxy Containing Three Supermassive Black Holes at the Center
NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a…
Perfect Example of a Barred Spiral Galaxy, Seen Face On. This is What Our Milky Way Might Look Like
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7773. This is a…
Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? Black Holes May Reveal the Answer
What is dark matter made of? It's one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark…
Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don’t
I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny…
Matter is Going Into this Black Hole at 30% the Speed of Light
A team of researchers in the UK have observed matter falling into a black hole at 30% the speed of…
The Milky Way is Still Rippling from a Galactic Collision Millions of Years Ago
Between 300 million and 900 million years ago, our Milky Way galaxy nearly collided with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. Data…