03 May 2017
Milky Way dark matter still as elusive as ever
...need dark matter to understand the gamma-ray emissions of our galaxy," said Mattia Di Mauro from the Kavli Institute for Particle ... exists because it bends light from distant galaxies and affects how galaxies rotate. One potential way to spot dark...
06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
... as far North as +30 degrees beyond the Earth’s equatorial plane. Once complete, it is expected to generate a catalogue of as many as 70 million galaxies. In preparation for the full EMU survey, Norris and team are conducting the EMU Pilot Survey...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... power of the Dark Side”, says Darth Vader, arguably the galaxy’s most imposing dictator, and he’s right. There’s a Dark ...the hope of sending money home and seeing a bit of the galaxy. Sound familiar? However, all these civilians were - spoiler alert...
16 November 2015
Largest, most detailed image of space created by German astronomers.
..., created by Chini's team, enables viewers to fully explore the galaxy by using a powerful zoom to showcase various parts of the Milky...decade of research, and combines 268 views of the galaxy captured nightly by telescopes in the Atacama Desert (Chile...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
...is surrounded by a group of stars orbiting it at high speed. The resulting gravitational field, the strongest in the Milky Way galaxy, creates the ideal environment for testing Einstein's general theory of relativity. One of these stars, S2, was less...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
...the monster-material eating machine at the heart of the galaxy is still not determined, but researchers have been able to...flowing around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The colors represent the motion of the gas relative to ...
