This artist’s conception of quasar J0313-1806 depicts it as it was 670 million years after the Big Bang. Quasars are highly energetic objects at the centers of galaxies, powered by black holes and brighter than entire galaxies. Shown here is a phenomenon known as zodiacal light, which is caused by […]
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Galaxy clusters typically consist of thousands of galaxies held together by strong gravitational forces, with the most powerful black holes ever discovered lying at their centres. In the usual galaxy clusters observed the black holes at their centres were so strong they actually prevented the creation of stars, but the […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a “peculiar galaxy” located 130 million light years away that’s bigger than the Milky Way. The image was captured of the galaxy called NGC 772 which is located in the constellation Aries. One noticeable difference between the galaxy and our own is the that […]
The Small Magellanic Cloud is slowly dyingNASA, ESA, and A. Nota (STScI/ESA) By Leah Crane The Small Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest galactic neighbours, is dying. New observations show that for every sun-sized star that the galaxy forms, it blows away almost ten times as much mass in the […]
Like looking in a mirrorESO/C. Malin By Ken Croswell We’ve seen ourselves in the heavens. A giant spiral galaxy 180 million light years from Earth not only resembles the Milky Way but also boasts a pair of interacting galaxies that look like our galaxy’s two brightest satellites. At least 50 […]