06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
... the speed of carbon monoxide gas swirling around the black hole at the centre of NGC 1332, a massive elliptical galaxy in the direction of the southern constellation Eridanus. "Measuring the mass of a black hole accurately is very challenging, even...
07 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
... observe in the Milky Way, evolved into giant elliptical galaxies over time. Locating these monstrous galaxies could help researchers ascertain the role dark matter plays in galaxy formation, as it theorised that they form in environments where...
16 February 2018
New study shows Andromeda is not that big after all
... in roughly 4.5 billion years and this titanic of mergers is likely to produce a giant elliptical galaxy. It is also expected that our galaxy “will eat” two nearby dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds sometime in the future too...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
..., a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby elliptical galaxy ESO 325-G004, by measuring the movement of stars ...us to infer how much mass there must be in the galaxy to hold these stars in orbit,” explained team leader Thomas Collett...
