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ALMA Discovers Giant Galaxies Nestled Inside Massive Dark Matter Halo

Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang , would share many similarities with some of the dwarf galaxies we see in the nearby universe today.

7 Dec 2017

Astronomers Discover Oldest and Most-Distant Supermassive Black Hole

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados used Carnegie’s Magellan telescopes to discover the most-distant supermassive black hole ever observed.

7 Dec 2017

NASA's SuperTIGER Balloon Gets Ready for Second Flight to Explore Cosmic Rays

A science team in Antarctica is preparing to loft a balloon-borne instrument to collect information on cosmic rays, high-energy particles from beyond the solar system that enter Earth's atmosphere every moment of every day.

7 Dec 2017

Spintronics Research Could Help Produce Chips Generating Less Heat

Some of the quantum properties of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors have been successfully measured by EPFL researchers. This work carried out in the field of spintronics will one day be able to lead to chips that are not just smaller but that which also produce less heat.

6 Dec 2017

Scientists Manage to Narrow Down Size of Neutron Stars

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe; however, their exact characteristics remain unknown.

5 Dec 2017

Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Plate Tectonics, Study Shows

A recent study provides new evidence that the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa may have plate tectonics similar to those on Earth.

5 Dec 2017

Colliding Galaxies Support Theory of Elusive Dark Matter SIMPs

The intensive, worldwide search for dark matter, the missing mass in the universe, has so far failed to find an abundance of dark, massive stars or scads of strange new weakly interacting particles, but a new candidate is slowly gaining followers and observational support.

5 Dec 2017

Australian Astronomer Creates Most Detailed Map of High-Velocity Clouds in the Universe

An Australian scientist has created the most detailed map ever of clouds of high-velocity gas in the Universe around us.

4 Dec 2017

New Study Corrects Model of Galaxy and Star Cluster Formation

When galaxy clusters and globular star clusters form, a phenomenon called "violent relaxation" occurs. After interacting intensely, the thousands or even millions of bodies reach a state of relative gravitational equilibrium and a fairly long-lasting spatial distribution.

4 Dec 2017

Study Provides Deeper Physical Understanding of Plasma Turbulence

Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the visible matter in the universe, including the sun, the stars, and the gaseous medium that permeates the space in between.

4 Dec 2017