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Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
April 4, 2012 — Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet ... > full story -
Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter
April 2, 2012 — Scientists have looked for signals from dark matter by zeroing in on 10 small, faint galaxies that orbit our own. Although no signals have been detected, a novel analysis technique applied to two ... > full story -
Growing Up Supermassive: A Black Hole's Diet of Stars
April 2, 2012 — Astrophysicists have found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive black holes in the center of most galaxies: They repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs of stars that ... > full story -
Milky Way Image Reveals Detail of a Billion Stars
March 28, 2012 — More than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in a new image. Large structures of the Milky Way galaxy, such as gas and dust clouds where stars have ... > full story -
Astronomers Detect Vast Amounts of Gas and Dust Around Black Hole in Early Universe
March 27, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of gas and dust in a galaxy that surrounds the most distant supermassive black hole known. Light from the galaxy, called J1120+0641, has taken so long to ... > full story -
A Planetary System from the Early Universe
March 27, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of the star HIP 11952 and two ... > full story -
'Ordinary' Black Hole Discovered 12 Million Light Years Away
March 27, 2012 — Scientists have discovered an ‘ordinary’ black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time that a normal-size black hole has been detected away ... > full story -
Gas Mass Role in Creating Fireworks Versus Beacons of Star Formation Revealed
March 27, 2012 — A study of galaxies in the deepest far-infrared image of the sky highlights the two contrasting ways that stars formed in galaxies up to 12 billion years ... > full story -
Laser Hints at How Universe Got Its Magnetism
March 24, 2012 — Scientists have used a laser to create magnetic fields similar to those thought to be involved in the formation of the first galaxies; findings that could help to solve the riddle of how the universe ... > full story -
New Theory on Size of Black Holes: Gas-Guzzling Black Holes Eat Two Courses at a Time
March 23, 2012 — Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive -- claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more ... > full story
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