A CSIRO radio telescope in search of our cosmic neighbors. Picture of Wayne England According to a new study, we are located far from the most important birthplaces of intelligent life. Civilizations developed in...
Supermassive black hole – The artist’s view of a black hole eating matter. The curves show the pulse of the black hole in the core of the RE J1034 + 396 galaxy in 2007...
The black hole in the central galaxy of the Abell 2261 galaxy cluster was again under search. Picture CXC / Univ of Michigan / K. Gültekin / Nasa / STScI / NAOJ / Subaru...
The Keck I telescope at Mauna Kea has measured a distance record of galaxies. From the galaxy GN-z11, light set in motion when the universe was only hundreds of millions of years old.. (The...
Black holes – Giant space crabs can tear stars to pieces – but also shape the evolution of entire galaxies. Black holes are the most fascinating and at the same time the most frightening...
Ten billion years ago, a galaxy collided with a young Milky Way. A large number of the stars belonging to it have now been revealed from the downtown area of our home galaxy. “To...
