In an effort to better understand how the Universe evolved as the first stars were formed, U.S. astronomers led by Dr Sanchayeeta Borthakur of Johns Hopkins...
An international team of astronomers, led Dr Matteo Bachetti of the University of Toulouse in France, has detected what they say is the most powerful pulsar...
Astronomers conducting a broad survey of galaxies called Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) have found that the Universe’s most massive galaxies gain weight...
A multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Hugo Messias of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal, has...
A group of astronomers from Europe, Australia and the United States led by Dr Janez Kos of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia has produced pseudo-3D...
An international team of astronomers using the William E. Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has discovered a 2.6-million-light-year-long...
A team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the most distant...
Astronomers using a new telescope called the Dragonfly Telephoto Array have discovered seven new dwarf galaxies the field of a nearby spiral galaxy known...
A group of astronomers headed by Prof Clive Tadhunter from the the University of Sheffield has discovered that the central supermassive black hole of the...
A team of scientists led by Dr Roger Deane from the University of Cape Town in South Africa has discovered a system of three supermassive black holes –...
Astronomers have detected a clumpy gas stream flowing quickly outward and blocking 90 percent of the X-rays emitted by the supermassive black hole at the...
Astronomers from the United States and China have discovered a hypervelocity star (HVS) that is the closest bright HVS and one of the three most massive...
Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...
PS1-10afx, an unusually bright supernova that was discovered in 2010 using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, is so luminous because...
The more massive the bulge of a galaxy, the redder the galaxy, says a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
According to astronomers led by Dr Anna Frebel from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy called Segue-1 may be one of first...
Scientists from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have used 140,000 quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was...
