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Mysterious object being dragged into supermassive black hole at Milky Way'
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Scientists are interested in an item that is close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy because it has undergone a rapid and dramatic evolution. According to a recent study, the object known as X7 might be a cloud of gas and dust that resulted from the collisi
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New discovery sheds light on very early supermassive black holes
Updated : 3 years ago IST
One of the most extreme galaxies known to exist in the very early Universe has a fast-expanding black hole, according to astronomers from the Universities of Texas and Arizona. New information about the creation of the first supermassive black holes is revealed by the discovery of the galaxy
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Massive fuel-hungry black holes feed off intergalactic gas: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds which reach them by travelling hundreds of thousands of light years from one galaxy to another.
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Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky W
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, arguably the largest such catalogue so far. The data for this unprecedented survey was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Depa
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Research details wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists compared images of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CE
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James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars, elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks, at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies,
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Research team reveals new details about Io's volcanoes of Jupiter
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
VLA teams up with Juno spacecraft to study Jupiter's atmosphere, and ALMA reveals new details about Io's volcanoes.
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New research reveals exact shape of the halo of stars existing in our gala
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The cloud-like diffusion of stars, which almost appears like a disk in pictures, has long been believed to be spherical in shape. However, new research coming from a team of scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics proves otherwise.
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Study creates map of Milky Way galaxy's ancient dead stars
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): The first map of the 'galactic underworld' a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into black holes and neutron stars have revealed a graveyard that stretches three times the height of the Milky Way, and that almost a third of t
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Milky Way's supermassive black hole has hot gas bubbles swirling around th
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted signs of a 'hot spot' orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
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Researchers reveals mysterious ripples in the Milky Way were caused by a p
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation Sagittarius, that shook our galaxy as it passed by hundreds of milli
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Hubble findings may provide insights into formation of Universe
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 10 (ANI): Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don't fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied 'baby boom' of star birth that occurred early in the universe's history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satelli
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