22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
... in their centres. Scientists are still trying to work out which came first, the galaxy or the supermassive black hole,” according to the center. The crowd-sourcing approach leverages the “wisdom of crowds” principle, according to the center...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
...Instead it was a result of active galactic nuclei (supermassive black holes) and "starbursting" galaxies pumping out stars at a prodigious ... star formation and the growth of super massive black holes within the proto-cluster, all fit nicely within...
06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
... in the cosmos. “In their centers are two supermassive black holes, squirting out jets of electrons that are then bent... had never even been suspected. Whats more, its supermassive black hole is generating jets of electrons nearly 5 million light years...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... luminous systems typically contain a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a closely orbiting companion star. The... material near the neutron star or black hole becomes superheated and shoots off x-rays, as the star...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
... new science, and IXPE is going to show us the violent universe around us – such as exploding stars and the black holes at the center of galaxies – in ways we’ve never been able to see it.” The rocket performed as expected, with spacecraft separation...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
...place among the stars. The collection also includes the Black Widow Spider. Although normally associated with a small, dark... are from gamma-ray sources, such as supermassive black holes, gamma-ray bursts and the debris of supernova explosions...
