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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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Astronomers detect hot gas bubbles swirling around the Milky Way's superma
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a 'hot spot' orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The finding helps us better understand the enigmatic and dynamic environment
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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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Experts find dormant black hole near our galaxy
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 19 (ANI): A stellar-mass black hole has been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy which is the neighbour of the Milky Way Galaxy. This discovery was made by a group of international experts who are renowned for disproving other black hole discoveries.
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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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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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Astronomers capture image of black hole at center of the Milky Way
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Daejeon [South Korea], May 16 (ANI/Global Economic):Astronomers snapped an image of a supermassive black hole for the first time in history. This is the second result of the research team since 2019, when it presented a picture of the M87 black hole. The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Ins
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Scientists find new catalogue of stars revealing chemical history of Milky
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 26 (ANI): University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a recent sample catalogue of more than 24 million stars that can be used to decipher the chemical history of elements in the 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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