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  How the Milky Way Killed Off Nearby Galaxies

  October 18, 2011 — Researchers have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. More than 12 billion years ago, the intense ultraviolet ... > full story
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  Dark Matter Mystery Deepens

  October 17, 2011 — Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding ... > full story
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  Hubble Survey Carries out a Dark Matter Census

  October 13, 2011 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been used to make an image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847. The apparently distorted shapes of distant galaxies in the background is caused by an invisible ... > full story
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  Clearing the 'Cosmic Fog' of the Early Universe: Massive Stars May Be Responsible

  October 12, 2011 — The space between the galaxies wasn't always transparent. In the earliest times, it was an opaque, dense fog. How it cleared is an important question in astronomy. New observational evidence shows ... > full story
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  Suspects in the Quenching of Star Formation Exonerated

  October 11, 2011 — Some supermassive black holes power luminous, rapidly growing objects called active galactic nuclei (AGN) that gather and condense enormous quantities of matter. Because astronomers had seen these ... > full story
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  Astrophysicists Find Evidence of Black Holes' Destruction of Stars

  October 11, 2011 — Astrophysicists have found evidence of black holes destroying stars, a long-sought phenomenon that provides a new window into general relativity. The research also opens up a method to search for the ... > full story
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  First Images from ALMA Telescope: Hidden Star-Formation in Antennae Galaxies Revealed

  October 3, 2011 — First visualizations of ALMA test data are made public with unprecedented views of once-hidden star-formation in the colliding galaxy pair, the ... > full story

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  • ALMA Opens Its Eyes: Science Begins at World's Most Complex Ground-Based Astronomy Observatory
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  Cosmic Weight Watching Reveals Black Hole-Galaxy History

  September 30, 2011 — Using state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated data analysis tools, a team of astronomers has developed a new and powerful technique to directly determine the mass of an active galaxy at a ... > full story
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  Astronomers Reveal Supernova Factory

  September 30, 2011 — A team of astronomers has detected seven previously unknown supernovae in a galaxy 250 million light years away. Never before have so many supernovae been discovered at the same time in the same ... > full story
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  Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole

  September 29, 2011 — Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies swallow large amounts of gas. During this feast they spill a lot of their 'food', which is discharged in turbulent outbursts. An ... > full story

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  • Environment of a Supermassive Black Hole Revealed

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