Astronomers Investigate Dark Matter’s Missing Ingredient
Small-scale concentrations of dark matter produce lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected, a new study found.
Tag: galaxy cluster
Astronomers find the most massive black hole in the local universe
A dim patch in an otherwise bright galaxy is the epicenter of a supermassive black hole whose mass is 40 ...
Hubble finds ‘smiley face’ drawn by galactic objects
NASA's space telescope was looking for new stars when it came across a happy accident.
Massive 2.3-gigapixel image of Fornax Galaxy Cluster documents galactic ‘serial killer’
You'll feel very, very small after reading seeing this image.
Incredibly active galaxy cluster creates 800 stars every year
The gargantuan cluster is 9.8 billion light years away from us, houses at least 27 galaxies and has a combined ...
Hubble goes farther than ever before: images reveal deepest view of the Universe yet
Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster. Photo: : NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team. Huge ...
NASA’s great observatories combine to probe deeper in the Universe
These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part of an ambitious new ...
Astronomers use massive objects in space as huge telescopes, find brightest galaxy via gravity lens
Whenever a massive object, with an equally massive gravitational pull, like black holes or galaxy clusters, falls between an observer, ...
Hubble captures photo of earliest galaxy cluster ever found
The ever scientifically productive Hubble just came out with another gem that will help scientists unravel the mysteries of the ...
‘El Gordo’ – largest galaxy cluster ever seen, is colliding and growing
Galaxy clusters are the biggest stable structures in our Universe that we know of, typically containing 50 to 1000 galaxies. ...
