12 August 2016
Astronomers spot two merging galaxy clusters bridged by X-rays
... joules) that is fed into a number of processes, such as heating, turbulence and boosting the intergalactic magnetic field. Cosmological simulations also predict that as the gas between the two clusters collides, the gas at the front...
07 September 2016
Astronomers reveal the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed
... in Nature, the team also state that their results agree with expectations from modern Lamda CDM cosmological simulations, which predict that the oldest stellar populations of a galaxy undergoing mergers are mainly concentrated in the...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... allow scientists to investigate our place in the Universe, from our local neighbourhood, to Galactic and even grander, cosmological scales than ever achieved before.
14 October 2016
Observable Universe is populated with 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought
... Universe mean that the entire Universe cannot be seen from Earth. The part visible within our cosmological horizon is called the observable Universe. [2] The astronomer Heinrich Olbers argued that the night sky should...
07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
...,” added the co-leader of the study, Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh. "We see an intriguing discrepancy with Planck cosmology at the moment. Future missions such as the Euclid satellite and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... be physically different from the others," cautioned Bryan Butler of NRAO. "We are the first to show that this is a cosmological phenomenon. It's not something in our backyard. And we are the first to see where this thing is happening, in this...
