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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reveals Black Hole and Newborn Stars are Parts of Self-Regulating Cycle

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet-light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming along the jets of active black holes found in the centers of giant elliptical galaxies.

7 Aug 2015

ESO's Very Large Telescope Captures Best View of Little-Known Southern Owl Nebula

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object: a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star. This is the best view of the little-known object ESO 378-1 yet obtained and was captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

6 Aug 2015

Large Disk Galaxies May Have Existed in the Early Days of the Universe

A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the universe.

6 Aug 2015

Cosmic Web Imager Provides Evidence for Cold-Flow Model of Galaxy Formation

A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away--a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.

6 Aug 2015

Astronomers Find Galaxies 5 Billion Light Years Across

A Hungarian-US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts – and hence galaxies - 5 billion light years across.

6 Aug 2015

Saturn’s Planetary Rings May Have Universally Similar Particle Distribution

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age-old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

6 Aug 2015

New Model Could Explain Loss of Lithium in Stars

Lithium, the lightest metal, used in batteries and mood-stabilising drugs, is rarer than it should be. Models of the period after the Big Bang explain how it, hydrogen and helium were synthesised in nuclear reactions, before the universe cooled enough for the stars and planets that we see today to come into being.

6 Aug 2015

When Two Same Sized Galaxies Collide Both Produce Stars at a Faster Rate

When two different sized galaxies smash together, the larger galaxy stops the smaller one making new stars, according to a study of more than 20,000 merging galaxies.

6 Aug 2015

Coma Galaxy Cluster Could Contain More Dark Matter than Visible Matter

Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.

5 Aug 2015

HYPRES Unveils Superconducting Integrated Circuit Fabrication Process for Next Generation Supercomputing Systems

HYPRES, Inc., the Digital Superconductor Company™, announces that it now offers integrated circuit (IC) foundry services with the increased critical current density of 10 kA/cm2 with a minimum junction size of 0.7 micrometer in diameter.

5 Aug 2015

Super Wide-Field Images of Galaxies Reveal Hierarchical Galaxy Assembly Process on Galactic Scales

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam prime-focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors, M82 and NGC3077.

5 Aug 2015

Neutron Stars Rival Black Holes in Producing Ultrafast Jets of Material

Some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered.

5 Aug 2015

Lowest-Entropy Gas Helps Detect Subtle Quantum Mechanical Effects

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have cooled a gas to the quietest state ever achieved, hoping to detect faint quantum effects lost in the din of colder but noisier fluids.

5 Aug 2015

Changes in Liquid-Like Pattern of Electronic Spin Correlations Precede Onset of Superconductivity

Despite a quarter-century of research since the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductors, scientists still don't have a clear picture of how these materials are able to conduct electricity with no energy loss.

5 Aug 2015

Entropy Engine Employs Quantum Mechanics to Solve Entropy Generation Problem

Whitewood Encryption Systems Inc.®, a developer of next-generation entropy management systems, is pleased to introduce the Entropy Engine™, a new product that is the world’s most cost-effective, quantum-powered random number generator.

4 Aug 2015

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reveals Black Hole and Newborn Stars are Parts of Self-Regulating Cycle

ESO's Very Large Telescope Captures Best View of Little-Known Southern Owl Nebula

Large Disk Galaxies May Have Existed in the Early Days of the Universe

Cosmic Web Imager Provides Evidence for Cold-Flow Model of Galaxy Formation

Astronomers Find Galaxies 5 Billion Light Years Across

Saturn’s Planetary Rings May Have Universally Similar Particle Distribution

New Model Could Explain Loss of Lithium in Stars

When Two Same Sized Galaxies Collide Both Produce Stars at a Faster Rate

Coma Galaxy Cluster Could Contain More Dark Matter than Visible Matter

HYPRES Unveils Superconducting Integrated Circuit Fabrication Process for Next Generation Supercomputing Systems

Super Wide-Field Images of Galaxies Reveal Hierarchical Galaxy Assembly Process on Galactic Scales

Neutron Stars Rival Black Holes in Producing Ultrafast Jets of Material

Lowest-Entropy Gas Helps Detect Subtle Quantum Mechanical Effects

Changes in Liquid-Like Pattern of Electronic Spin Correlations Precede Onset of Superconductivity

Entropy Engine Employs Quantum Mechanics to Solve Entropy Generation Problem

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