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Is this the first known binary system to produce two supernova remnants?
57+ min ago (197+ words) That neighbor, designated G189.6+3.3, was first discovered in 1994 in X-ray data from the German-led Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) mission as a faint, ambiguous shell-like structure east of IC 443. It was easy to dismiss as a secondary feature of the Jellyfish rather than…...
Hidden fifth dimension could finally explain the mystery of dark matter, scientists say
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Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (16+ words) Daily Independent...
Astronomers Have a New Way to Search for Black Holes Kicked Out of Their Galaxies
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (579+ words) A subtle cosmic signature may hold the key to finding supermassive black holes that have been racing through space for millions of years. Astronomers have identified a potential new clue that could help track some of the universe’s most elusive…...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope May Have Just Unraveled a Longstanding Black Hole Mystery
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (560+ words) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have astronomers on the brink of solving another long-standing astronomical mystery: how do supermassive black holes feed? Astronomers from the Université de Montréal led an international team in the new research, reported in a…...
The nuclear disk changes our understanding of galactic evolution
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (521+ words) In the center of a distant galaxy, a dense disk of young stars has been spotted, rotating and continuing to grow. The light from this structure traveled to Earth for more than 9 billion years, so we are looking at the…...
New findings revise the Milky Way-Andromeda collision odds into a cosmic coin toss
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (1058+ words) For decades, astronomers have predicted that the Milky Way will eventually collide with its nearest large galactic neighbor, Andromeda. (CREDIT: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger) The Milky Way and Andromeda have appeared locked on…...
Dark matter resides in a hidden extra dimension along with a force-carrying particle known as the “dark photon”, according to a new theory
5+ hour ago (276+ words) Researchers at the University of Sheffield propose a theoretical framework that links the geometry of extra dimensions with the behavior of dark matter, eliminating the need for artificial adjustments in physical models Dark matter, that mysterious substance that holds galaxies…...
If dark matter is everywhere, why do some galaxies seem to contain none at all?
6+ hour ago (868+ words) What does it mean to find a galaxy without dark matter, or with very little of it? Next time you're looking at an amazing image of space showing a cosmos peppered with stars and galaxies – like the images captured by…...
Earliest Galaxy-Building Signs Discovered By Astronomers
6+ hour, 29+ min ago (339+ words) Astronomers from our Physics Department have discovered the earliest known evidence of a galaxy being shaped from the inside out, revealing that key processes in galaxy evolution were already under way when the Universe was still young. The research shows…...