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Disturbances in adjacent dwarf galaxies suggest different gravity hypothes
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles. This halo is invisible, but its mass exerts a strong gravitational pull on galaxies in the vicinity. A new study challenges this vie
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First stars seen through fog of 'Early Universe': Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [U.S], July 22 (ANI): A team of astronomers has developed a method that will allow them to 'see' through the fog of the early Universe and detect light from the first stars and galaxies.
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New class of stellar system called 'blue blobs' found: Research
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): A new class of stellar systems has been identified- they're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation, according to the researchers at University of Arizona.
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Gaia space telescope rocks science of asteroids: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): According to a study by the University of Helsinki, the European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion objects in the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding cosmos. The Gaia Data Rel
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Hidden trove of massive black holes found: Research
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Chappel Hill (North Carolina) [US], May 29 (ANI): A previously overlooked treasure trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies have been found by a team led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Detected in early universe, the Massive black holes inside of dying galaxi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 28 (ANI): According to a database used by an international team of astronomers, a combination of observations from the best telescopes in the world, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from the active supermassive black holes of dying galaxies in the ear
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Researchers find hidden trove of massive black holes
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Chappel Hill (North Carolina) [US], May 24 (ANI): A team of researchers at the University Of North Carolina has found black holes which offer a glimpse into the life story of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.
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4.4 million galaxies revealed by scientists in new study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Durham [England], February 26 (ANI): It is not an unknown fact that our universe has millions of galaxies, of which, we live in one: the Milky Way galaxy. But is it possible to find out how many galaxies are there? In a piece of surprising news, a Durham University astronomer collaborating w
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Study discusses distant galaxies and true nature of dark matter
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Trieste [Italy], February 14 (ANI): There is a vast spherical region made up of dark matter particles, at the centre of spiral galaxies. This region has two defining characteristics: a density that is constantly out to a certain radius that amazingly expands over time, while the density decr
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Too many disk galaxies than theory allows: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bonn [Germany], February 7 (ANI): The Standard Model of Cosmology has described how the universe came into being according to the view of most physicists. Now, researchers at the University of Bonn studied the evolution of galaxies within this model and found considerable discrepancies with
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Researchers discover extraordinary black hole in neighbouring galaxy
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Utah [US], January 26 (ANI): Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centres of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode, making made it one of
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Motion of some stars holds clue of dark matter shape in barred galaxies
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Dark matter forms the skeleton on which galaxies form, evolve, and merge. Scientists investigating how the shape of dark matter halo affects the motion of stars in stellar bars (found at the centre of some galaxies) have found that out-of-plane bending ev
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