13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... few years, all-sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae, have ... to wait until telescopes such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope start full science...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
The discovery of very bright quasars, (with luminosities ≥1047 ergs−1, at z ≃ 6*1) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) suggests that some supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as massive as a few times 109 solar masses already ...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... composite image of the galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Star formation Our own Sun generates a magnetic field that propagates outward in all directions with the...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... the study, published today in Nature. Having waded through data on around 7000 white dwarfs observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the team found one that turned out to be unlike any of the others; it had traces of hydrogen, oxygen...
07 April 2021
Astronomers find a rare pair of double quasars in the early Universe
... incredibly difficult to do. To focus their search, the team first identified 15 quasars for further investigation using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a programme which ran from 2000 to 2008 and at the time created the most detailed three-dimensional...
