When the Obama administration announced its proposed NASA budget in February, astronomers worldwide breathed a sigh of relief. Despite significant cuts in other areas, funding for the James Webb Space…
Most galaxies – including ours – host a hungry monster.
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What do black holes eat? And do supermassive black holes have fiercer appetites? Let’s remind ourselves of the facts.
Lurking at the centre of the Milky Way is a monster, a giant black hole with a mass…
Finding quasars will help us understand how galaxies were formed.
NASA
Today, the University of Melbourne’s Professor Stuart Wyithe was awarded the 2011 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for his work on the origin of galaxies.
The multi-award winning…
Viewed from afar, the Milky Way might appear similar to the galaxy known as NGC 7331.
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Where are we within our galaxy? How did our galaxy form? How did it evolve over the aeons?
Astronomers have been asking these questions for the past century, and have recently begun discerning the answers…
