Jul 23, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Japanese astronomers using two radio telescopes have produced a map of carbon monoxide distribution in the central region of our Galaxy. While mapping...

Jul 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using three telescopes – APEX in Chile, SMA in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope in Arizona – have observed the heart of...

Jun 15, 2012 by News Staff

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have challenged prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. NGC...

Jun 6, 2012 by James Freeman

Analyzing data from several telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive...

May 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Using NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two ghostly gamma-ray jets, which they believe are a sign of earlier jet activity...

May 18, 2012 by James Freeman

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive...

May 15, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a new heating source in cosmological structure formation. This artist’s impression shows a supermassive...