 Galaxy may hold hundreds of rogue black holes January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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If the latest simulation of what happens when black holes merge is correct, there could be hundreds of rogue black holes, each weighing several thousand times the mass of the sun, roaming around the Milky ... | |
 Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own February 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away. The find suggests that our galaxy hosts ... | |
 Radio telescope reveals secrets of massive black hole April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. | |
 A Slimmer Milky Way Revealed by New Measurements June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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The Milky Way Galaxy has lost weight. A lot of weight. About a trillion Suns' worth, according to an international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), whose discovery has broad ... | |
 Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star! June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star. | |
 First detection of magnetic field in distant galaxy produces a surprise October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy's magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion ... | |
 CoRoT discovery challenges the definition of extra-solar planets October 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b, is approximately the same size as ... | |
 Gliese 581: one planet might indeed be habitable December 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago, most of the newly discovered exoplanets were Jupiter-mass, ... | |
 Astrophysicists discover youngest known supernova in Milky Way May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A North Carolina State University researcher has discovered the youngest known supernova in our galaxy. Estimated at a mere 140 years old, this celestial whippersnapper is at least 200 years younger than the ... | |
 Heart of the Crab Pulsar probed -- first direct look into the core of a neutron star June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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New information about the heart of one of the most famous objects in the sky -- the Crab Pulsar in the Crab Nebula -- has been revealed by an international team of scientists searching for gravitational waves. ... | |
Galaxy Clusters Have a Mysterious Motion September 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The stars are in motion, and on a much larger scale than can be explained with current theories, according to astronomers at NASA, the University of Hawaii and UC Davis. The finding could improve our understanding ... | |
 A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Twinkle, twinkle little star" goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- ... | |
Scientists discover possible cosmic defect, remnant from Big Bang October 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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Scientists from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) and the University of Cambridge may have discovered an example of a cosmic defect, a remnant from the Big Bang called a texture. If confirmed, their discovery, ... | |
LIGO Sheds Light on Cosmic Event December 21, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense gamma-ray burst that occurred ... | |
 Hubble finds strong contender for galaxy distance record February 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Detailed images from Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) reveal an infant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, undergoing a firestorm of star birth as it comes out of the dark ages, a ... | |
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