25 June 2015
The story behind ultra dark galaxies
.... Thanks to Japan’s Subaru telescope, which is located in Hawaii, astronomers have found over 800 new galaxies in the Coma Cluster – galaxies we just haven’t been able to spot before due to their extremely low density. What’s interesting about...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
... Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours. The study, dubbed the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), surveyed 83 percent of the...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
..."Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution," ...spacetime caused by collisions of black holes in distant galaxies. Intriguingly, the black holes involved in such collisions...
08 September 2015
Is EGS8p7 the most distant galaxy from Earth?
... distant – and possibly one of the eldest – galaxies in the universe. The galaxy, dubbed EGS8p7, is estimated to be 13.2 billion... what the conditions are like in one of the oldest galaxies we’ve ever found. Researchers say that it is “unusually ...
13 August 2020
Fastest star in the galaxy is found, and potentially its a “squeezar”
...to orbit the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy and the other hurtles round Sagittarius A* at speeds of 24, 000 kilometres... away from Sgr A*. How did they get so close to our galaxy’s SMBH? The team speculate that the stars were once part of ...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
...99.9 percent of the mass contained at the very center of the galaxy is due to the black hole, and only 0.1 percent could... 27,000 light-years from the Sun, the centre of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole 4.3 million times as massive...
