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New study indicates supermassive black hole at center of Milky Way
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): New research has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is not spinning much, providing more evidence that it is unlikely to have a jet.
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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
Updated : 3 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the galactic center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in th
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Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the centre of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a t
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Galactic bar paradox resolved in Cosmic Dance
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 26 (ANI): New light has been shed on a mysterious and long-standing conundrum at the very heart of our galaxy.
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Researchers discover mystery gas near centre of Milky Way
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Canberra [Australia], August 20 (ANI): An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the centre of the Milky Way "like bullets".
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Stellar pulsations distribute key ingredient for life
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Maryland [USA], August 5 (ANI): As Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff" -- but how do stars distribute their essential "stuff" for life into space? NASA's telescope on an airplane, SOFIA, is finding some answers by watching pulsating stars as they expand and contract, almost
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Radio telescopes find extrasolar planet around main-sequence star
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): An international team of astronomers including Gisela Ortiz-Leon from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn discovered a Saturn-like planet orbiting a small, cool star by detecting the "wobble" in the star's motion caused by the gravi
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NRAO release new image showing huge extent of spiral galaxy's magn
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
New Mexico [USA], July 22 (ANI): The galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-forming, spiral galaxy, similar to our own Milky Way, 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Peering under dust, study reveals radiation at galactic centre
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Wisconsin [USA], July 4 (ANI): Thanks to 20 years of homegrown galactic data, astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Whitewater and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have finally figured out just how much energy permeates the centre of the Milky Way.
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Hungriest of black holes among the most massive in the universe
Updated : 6 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 1 (ANI): We now know just how massive the fastest-growing black hole in the universe actually is, as well as how much it eats, thanks to new research led by the Australian National University (ANU).
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Planets must be formed early
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ag
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