Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang

Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds that in the early Universe…

5 years ago

Watch a Simulation of a Galaxy, From the Big Bang Until the Present Day

The large-scale and highly-detailed TNG50 simulation has allowed scientists to shed new light on the evolution of the cosmos and…

5 years ago

Starbursts May Actually Destroy Globular Clusters

[/caption] It seems logical to assume that long ago, the amount of globular clusters increased in our galaxy during star-making…

13 years ago

Cosmic Collisions – The Astronomical Alchemist

[/caption]Here on Earth the practice of alchemy once had its era - trying to turn lead into gold. However, somewhere…

13 years ago