26 October 2016
Australian radio telescope shows the Universe in radio waves
...Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The Milky Way is visible as a band across the sky and the dots... said. The GLEAM survey is an important step on the way to the low frequency part of the Square Kilometer Array radio...
16 December 2016
Mini-spiral galaxies may transform how dark matter is perceived
... - spiral galaxies that look similar to our own Milky Way, but are ten thousand times smaller. By studying these... observed, the structure of dark matter mimics visible matter in its own way. "If, for a given mass, the luminous matter in a galaxy is...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... for the origin of FRBs. These mysterious bursts were originally thought to have come from within the Milky Way or at least from cosmic neighbours nearby due to their high energy, however their sporadic nature was something...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...’ material such as the gas clouds that populate the Milky Way, in order to look at how the Universe appears ...a white dwarf being shredded by an intermediate-mass black hole. Either way, say the team, none of these scenarios can completely explain all...
08 March 2017
The most distant galaxy yet observed by ALMA gives insight into first stars
...’s Cluster, at a rate of 20 solar masses per year — compared to just one solar mass per year in the Milky Way. Put another way, it means that the total mass of the stars formed every year is equivalent to 20 times the mass...
22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
...emitting up to a thousand times the energy output of the Milky Way, and it is thought that quasars are driven by the... the black hole inducing star formation and driving the dynamics in ways that we've observed in nature was really icing on the cake."...
