08 March 2017
The most distant galaxy yet observed by ALMA gives insight into first stars
...’s Cluster, at a rate of 20 solar masses per year — compared to just one solar mass per year in the Milky Way. Put another way, it means that the total mass of the stars formed every year is equivalent to 20 times the mass...
22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
...emitting up to a thousand times the energy output of the Milky Way, and it is thought that quasars are driven by the... the black hole inducing star formation and driving the dynamics in ways that we've observed in nature was really icing on the cake."...
24 March 2017
Gravitational waves expel black hole from galaxy centre
... galaxy known as 3C186; this is more than the distance between the Sun and the centre of the Milky Way. This is particularly unusual as black holes and their supermassive counterparts, normally reside in the centres of galaxies. Although...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have found a super-Jupiter mass planet orbiting a star that is only a third the size of our Sun and is likely located in the Galactic bulge. The massive planet, known as MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb, was ...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
... going – including our own. Our nearest largest neighbour the Andromeda galaxy, is predicted to collide with the Milky Way in about four billion years time. While we might not be around as a species to witness the aftermath for ourselves...
10 July 2017
First glimpse at how gravity effects star formation
... will eventually amass enough material to form a protostar. Examples of these huge dusty filaments are ubiquitous in the Milky Way, but so far astronomers have not seen the process in action. That is until now. Using the Jansky...
