01 February 2016
Enormous gas cloud on a collision course with the Milky Way
... time the amount of heavier elements relative to hydrogen in the Smith Cloud, by measuring the dip in brightness of three active galaxies that reside billions of light-years beyond the cloud. The Smith Cloud absorbs some of its light...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... of phenomena that is capable of producing energy to this degree, however and that is Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). AGN are the power houses at the centres of galaxies and they are thought to result from the accretion of matter by a residing...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
...study, who after looked at a large sample of distant ‘active’ galaxies found a flaw with our current understanding of how the cosmos...the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and how galaxies have assembled themselves into massive superclusters which seem...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... falling of matter onto white dwarves in small dual-star systems), eruptive variables (accretive white dwarves), active galaxy nuclei flashes (blazars, quazars, supermassive black holes), dual star systems of unknown origins, superfast flashes...
