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Galaxy Merger Dilemma Solved
April 19, 2010 — Scientists have solved a long-standing dilemma about the mass of infrared bright merging galaxies. Because galaxies are the largest directly observable objects in the universe, learning more about ... > full story -
Supermassive Black Holes Strip Massive Galaxies of Star-Forming Gases
April 16, 2010 — Black holes have long been beloved of science fiction writers for their destructive capabilities and peculiar ability to warp space time. A new study reveals the awesome power of supermassive black ... > full story -
Space Telescope Moves on With One Detector
April 14, 2010 — Mission engineers and scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space telescope that has been beaming back pictures of galaxies for three times its design lifespan, are no longer planning ... > full story -
Have Black Holes Been Turning Up the Volume on the Cosmic Radio Background?
April 14, 2010 — Astronomers investigating why the cosmic background radiation is much brighter at radio wavelengths than expected have identified a potential culprit: fast spinning black holes early in the galaxy ... > full story -
Mystery Object in Starburst Galaxy M82 Possible Micro-Quasar
April 13, 2010 — Radio astronomers have discovered a strange new object in a nearby galaxy. The object, which appeared very suddenly in radio wavelengths and shows no signs of going away, does not appear to be like ... > full story -
Baby Stars in the Rosette Cloud
April 12, 2010 — Herschel's latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation ... > full story -
Hiding out Behind the Milky Way
April 8, 2010 — A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in a new infrared view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spiral beauty, called IC 342 and sometimes the "hidden galaxy," is ... > full story -
Hubble Snaps Heavyweight of the Leo Triplet
April 8, 2010 — Hubble has snapped a spectacular view of the largest "player" in the Leo Triplet, a galaxy with an unusual anatomy: it displays asymmetric spiral arms and an apparently displaced core. The peculiar ... > full story -
Fermi Maps an Active Galaxy's 'Smokestack Plumes'
April 1, 2010 — If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't ... > full story -
After Growth Spurt, Supermassive Black Holes Spend Half Their Lives Veiled in Dust
March 25, 2010 — Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new ... > full story
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