16 June 2021
Astronomers discover the largest rotating objects in the Universe
...published in Nature. Then, using a sophisticated mapping method, galaxies within it were divided into two regions on either side ... of the project at the AIP. "On these scales the galaxies within them are themselves just specs of dust. They move ...
June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
... astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time. Galaxies galore Galaxies galore Galaxies, galaxies everywhere! This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... batch of data was released to the astronomical community. Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying a billion stars and, in this taster of the richer catalogue to come, it has already pinned down the...
17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
...unprecedented 3D map of the distribution of over 10 000 galaxies provided by the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey has helped ...complex. At least seven high-density regions connected by galaxy-sized thread-like formations known as filaments have been identified...
20 March 2020
Missing particle a major blow for "Theory of Everything"
...towards the supermassive black hole in the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. "While it may sound like a long shot to... look for tiny particles like axions in gigantic structures like galaxy clusters, they are actually great places to look," said ...
11 October 2017
Have astronomers found the missing mass in the Universe?
Baryonic matter - the material that planets, stars and galaxies are made out of – accounts for only 4.6 percent ... Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect between ∼260,000 pairs of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG’s) taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. They suggest ...
