U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a massive cloud of hot gas likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy...
Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...
A new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, reported in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (full paper in...
Very detailed new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 may help explain the strange...
Astronomers, led by Dr Nicolas Bouche from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of two interacting galaxies collectively...
According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...
According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...
U.S. astrophysicists report computer simulations that seem to resolve long-standing questions about the origin and life history of spiral arms in disk...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77.
The spiral...
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...
An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This image...
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured two new views of the Andromeda Galaxy.
This new image from the Herschel Space Observatory...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...
