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New Instrument Successful in the Study of Newborn Stars

Researchers at ETH Zurich have partially developed and assembled an instrument, which has now been specifically successful in analyzing newborn stars that are still surrounded by dust and gas.

16 Apr 2018

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Farthest Individual Star

Icarus, an enormous blue star located over halfway across the universe, is the farthest individual star to be ever viewed.

3 Apr 2018

Source of the Magellanic Stream Identified

A 300,000 light-years long cloud of gas has been arching around the Milky Way, deflected away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting our galaxy.

29 Mar 2018

Galaxies Have Been Found to Rotate Once Every Billion Years

A discovery by astronomers shows that irrespective of their size, all galaxies rotate once in every billion years. $$IMAGE$$ It is well known that one day is the time taken by the Earth to spin around on its axis o...

14 Mar 2018

Study Discloses New High-Resolution Map of Galactic Center

A new research headed by Pat Roche, professor of astrophysics from The University of Oxford, and Chris Packham, associate professor of physics and astronomy from The University of Texas at San Antonio, has disclosed a fresh high-resolution map of the magnetic field lines in dust and gas circulating around the supermassive black hole located at the center of Earth’s galaxy.

26 Feb 2018

Astrophysicists Discover Supermassive Black Holes in Distant Galaxies

The data related to galaxies positioned nearly 3.5 billion light-years away from Earth have helped to observe what are probably the largest black holes.

21 Feb 2018

Growth of Supermassive Black Holes Outstripping that of Stars in Host Galaxies

The largest black holes in the universe are expanding very fast when compared to the rate of formation of stars in their galaxies.

19 Feb 2018

New Study Reveals Hidden Superconducting State Using High-Power Light

A concealed state of electronic order in a layered material possessing lanthanum, barium, copper, and oxygen (LBCO) has been detected by a team of researchers.

19 Feb 2018

Silicon Qubits Coupled with Light Amount to New Quantum Computing Capability

An experimental device reveals the potential to use light as a messenger to connect qubits that are not directly adjacent to each other.

16 Feb 2018

Simulation of Supermassive Black Holes to Predict Light Signals Emitted Just Before Their Collision

A simulation of supermassive black holes adopts a realistic setting to estimate light signals emitted into surrounding gas prior to collision of the masses.

16 Feb 2018