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Researchers find hidden trove of massive black holes
Updated : 1 day, 19 hours ago IST
Chappel Hill (North Carolina) [US], May 24 (ANI): A team of researchers at the University Of North Carolina has found black holes which offer a glimpse into the life story of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.
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4.4 million galaxies revealed by scientists in new study
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Durham [England], February 26 (ANI): It is not an unknown fact that our universe has millions of galaxies, of which, we live in one: the Milky Way galaxy. But is it possible to find out how many galaxies are there? In a piece of surprising news, a Durham University astronomer collaborating w
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Study discusses distant galaxies and true nature of dark matter
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Trieste [Italy], February 14 (ANI): There is a vast spherical region made up of dark matter particles, at the centre of spiral galaxies. This region has two defining characteristics: a density that is constantly out to a certain radius that amazingly expands over time, while the density decr
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Too many disk galaxies than theory allows: Study
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Bonn [Germany], February 7 (ANI): The Standard Model of Cosmology has described how the universe came into being according to the view of most physicists. Now, researchers at the University of Bonn studied the evolution of galaxies within this model and found considerable discrepancies with
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Researchers discover extraordinary black hole in neighbouring galaxy
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Utah [US], January 26 (ANI): Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centres of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode, making made it one of
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Motion of some stars holds clue of dark matter shape in barred galaxies
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Dark matter forms the skeleton on which galaxies form, evolve, and merge. Scientists investigating how the shape of dark matter halo affects the motion of stars in stellar bars (found at the centre of some galaxies) have found that out-of-plane bending ev
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NASA's Webb Telescope launches to see first galaxies, distant worlds
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 25 (ANI): NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 am EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America.
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Study suggests there could be 1 in 5 galaxies hidden behind cosmic dust
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], November 23 (ANI): Two previously invisible galaxies that are 29 billion light-years away have been discovered by the astronomers at the University of Copenhagen's Cosmic Dawn Center.
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Astronomers team up to create new method to understand galaxy evolution
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US], November 16 (ANI): A team of astronomers at The University of Toledo joined forces for the first time in their scientific careers during the pandemic to develop a new method to look back in time and change the way we understand the history of galaxies.
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Study finds how disorderly young galaxies grow up and mature
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Scania [Sweden], August 27 (ANI): A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in following the development of a galaxy over a span of 13.8 billion years by using a supercomputer simulation.
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Indigenously designed, developed spectrograph can locate faint light from
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Indian scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cos
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Experience the joy of rain in your bathroom
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 7 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Imagine the leaves trembling in the breeze, serene sea in sunset and mesmerising luminous galaxies as you step into your bathroom and turn on your shower. Wouldn't it be a flabbergasting experience? Certainly, this experience
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