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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Cosmic ring of fire: Astronomers see super-rare type of galaxy
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 26 (ANI): A team of astronomers has captured an image of a rare type of galaxy, which is described as a "cosmic ring of fire" - as it existed 11 billion years ago.
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Undergraduate student helps reveal how galaxies and black holes grow toget
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 21 (ANI): Over the past two decades, astronomers have concluded that most, if not all, galaxies host massive black holes at their centres and the masses of a black hole and its host galaxy are correlated. But how are the two connected?
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Exoplanet climate 'Decoder' aids search for life
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model -- an environmental colour "decoder" -- to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far aw
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South African, US astronomers use MeerKAT to solve mystery of 'X-Galaxies'
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): A team of astronomers from South Africa and the US has used the MeerKAT telescope to solve a longstanding puzzle in 'X'-shaped radio galaxies.
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'Elegant' solution reveals how universe got its structure
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 28 (ANI): The universe is full of billions of galaxies -- but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today, and how did it all form and grow?
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Galaxies grow fat on the flesh of their neighbours
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], April 23 (ANI): A new research led by Indian origin researcher Dr Anshu Gupta, has revealed that galaxies grow large by eating their smaller neighbours.
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Rotating galaxies galore revealed in infant universe
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 22 (ANI): Results of a sky survey program, called ALPINE, reveal that rotating disk-shaped galaxies may have existed in large numbers earlier in the universe than previously thought.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, say astronomers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories.
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Discovery of young blazar produced by merger of two galaxies
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 14 (ANI): A blazar is a particular type of active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a central supermassive black hole which emits a jet, a flux of highly energetic particles and radiation moving almost at the velocity of light, and which is aligned along the observe
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Distant Metals reveal the Universe's evolution
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): When did the first sources of light bombard the universe's gas, tearing electrons from atoms in a period known as reionization? A new study uses the metal-filled gas surrounding galaxies to learn more about the important transition.
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Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 3 (ANI): Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped.
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