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“Echo” of light augurs new era in study of black holes
The findings open up new opportunities for scientists trying to map and understand what happens on the brink of “active galactic nuclei”, or AGNs; monster black holes that exist at the heart of most...
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Our galaxy’s giant black hole rejects ‘food’ because it’s too ‘hot’
The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way appears to be on a severe diet. Scientists have now taken a major step towards understanding why - with new data providing insights into the reason...
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Galactic ‘vapour trails’ uncovered in giant cluster
Unusual gas filament ‘arms’ have been found in the central region of the Coma cluster, a large collection of thousands of galaxies located about 300 million light years from Earth - and one of the...
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Cambridge one of two UK institutions at highest level of ESA’s next Large...
At its meeting in Paris today, the European Space Agency (ESA) selected the "The Hot and Energetic Universe" as the science theme for L2– the second Large-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision science...
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Astronomers discover the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants
“You might think of this pulsar as the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants,” said Fiona Harrison of the California Institute of Technology. “It has all the power of a black hole but with much less...
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Dead satellite finds a calm centre at the heart of brightest galaxy cluster...
The result, published in the journal Nature, allows the mass of the Perseus Cluster – a swarm of thousands of galaxies that spans two million light years across and is one of the most massive known...
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New exoplanet think tank will ask the big questions about extra-terrestrial...
With funding from The Kavli Foundation, the think tank will bring together some of the major researchers in exoplanetary science – arguably the most exciting field in modern astronomy – for a series of...
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Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole winds
Outflowing gas is a common features of the supermassive black holes that reside at the centre of large galaxies. Often millions of times more massive than the Sun, these black holes feed off the...
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A force to be reckoned with
Think you know what gravity is? Think again. New research is revealing how little we know about this most mysterious of forces. Read the rest of the article from the latest version of CAM, the...
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“Echo” of light augurs new era in study of black holes
The findings open up new opportunities for scientists trying to map and understand what happens on the brink of “active galactic nuclei”, or AGNs; monster black holes that exist at the heart of most...
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Our galaxy’s giant black hole rejects ‘food’ because it’s too ‘hot’
The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way appears to be on a severe diet. Scientists have now taken a major step towards understanding why - with new data providing insights into the reason...
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Galactic ‘vapour trails’ uncovered in giant cluster
Unusual gas filament ‘arms’ have been found in the central region of the Coma cluster, a large collection of thousands of galaxies located about 300 million light years from Earth - and one of the...
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Cambridge one of two UK institutions at highest level of ESA’s next Large...
At its meeting in Paris today, the European Space Agency (ESA) selected the "The Hot and Energetic Universe" as the science theme for L2– the second Large-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision science...
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Astronomers discover the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants
“You might think of this pulsar as the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants,” said Fiona Harrison of the California Institute of Technology. “It has all the power of a black hole but with much less...
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Dead satellite finds a calm centre at the heart of brightest galaxy cluster...
The result, published in the journal Nature, allows the mass of the Perseus Cluster – a swarm of thousands of galaxies that spans two million light years across and is one of the most massive known...
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New exoplanet think tank will ask the big questions about extra-terrestrial...
With funding from The Kavli Foundation, the think tank will bring together some of the major researchers in exoplanetary science – arguably the most exciting field in modern astronomy – for a series of...
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Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole winds
Outflowing gas is a common features of the supermassive black holes that reside at the centre of large galaxies. Often millions of times more massive than the Sun, these black holes feed off the...
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A force to be reckoned with
Think you know what gravity is? Think again. New research is revealing how little we know about this most mysterious of forces. Read the rest of the article from the latest version of CAM, the...
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Professor Andrew Fabian awarded Kavli Prize
Professor Fabian is one of seven scientists from five countries honoured for breakthrough discoveries in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today...
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Gravity is one of the universe's great mysteries. We decided to find out why.Think you know what gravity is? Think again. New research is revealing how little we know about this most mysterious of forces.
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