Shedding light on black holes
Phys.org - Wed 14 Aug 19"Black holes" is one of the most highly searched terms about our universe. There's a fascination with the idea of a region of space having a gravitational pull so strong, nothing can escape ...
Astronomers have discovered the largest black hole ever observed
MIT Technology Review - Fri 9 Aug 19The monstrous object should be big enough for ground-based radio telescopes to image.
Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why
Newscientist - Fri 9 Aug 19Astronomers were shocked to find the area around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way growing 75 times brighter in just two hours
Astronomers discover 39 ancient, massive galaxies hiding in invisible light
New Atlas - Fri 9 Aug 19A galaxy seems like a hard thing to miss – let alone 39 of them – but that's exactly what a team of astronomers has just discovered. So where have these countless stars been hiding? ...
Image: Hubble traces a galaxy's outer reaches
Phys.org - Fri 2 Aug 19Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. But how could that be?
A 3-D model of the Milky Way Galaxy using data from Cepheids
Phys.org - Fri 2 Aug 19A team of researchers at the University of Warsaw has created the most accurate 3-D model of the Milky Way Galaxy to date. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group explains ...
Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape
Newscientist - Fri 2 Aug 19The most detailed ever map of the Milky Way shows that our galaxy is not flat. It turns out the disc is warped into an S-shape
Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
BBC News - Thu 1 Aug 19New research shows our galaxy, the Milky Way, is twisted and warped - not flat as previously thought.
Milky Way’s twisted spiral revealed in 3D
Nature News - Thu 1 Aug 19Nature, Published online: 01 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02364-3Map of ultra-bright stars called Cepheids shows galaxy’s warped disk.
A 3-D map of stars reveals the Milky Way’s warped shape
ScienceNews - Thu 1 Aug 19Our galaxy flaunts its curves in a chart of thousands of stars called Cepheids.
Famous 'X-Shaped' Galaxy Isn't Actually X-Shaped
SPACE.com - Mon 12 Aug 19There's a galaxy not too far from our own that astronomers were very sure was shaped like an X, but a new, clearer radio telescope image shows that the galaxy is more like a stretched-out blob.
Famous 'X-Shaped' Galaxy Isn't Actually X-Shaped, Livescience - Fri 9 Aug 19Gigantic black hole with mass 40 billion times the Sun discovered by astronomers
FOXNews - Tue 6 Aug 19Astronomers have potentially discovered a supermassive black hole located 700 million light years from Earth that has a mass 40 billion times that of the Sun.
Best Milky Way map yet confirms our galaxy is warped and twisted - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Mon 5 Aug 19Six years of study and 206,726 images of the sky brought you this incredible galactic map.
Astronomers plot largest 3D scale map of the Milky Way yet - CNET, CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 1 Aug 19Our Milky Way Galaxy Is Warped Instead of Flat
Extremetech - Mon 5 Aug 19A new analysis focusing on a class of very bright stars indicates the Milky Way might be stranger than we thought with a warped and uneven central disk. The ...
Another study confirms the Milky Way is warped and twister rather than a flat disc
ZME Science - Fri 2 Aug 19The Milky Way's shape resembles that of a hat with the brim down in front and up in back.
The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky Way
TechCrunch - Thu 1 Aug 19Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improved 3D model of our galaxy, based on direct observation rather than theoretical frameworks. And although no one ever ...
Astronomers find that Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy
Reuters - Thu 1 Aug 19Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars ...
Astronomers build incredible 3D map of the Milky Way from 206,726 images - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 1 Aug 19This is the latest effort to create a comprehensive map of our galaxy.
Another Study Finds Our Galaxy Is ‘Warped and Twisted’
Gizmodo - Thu 1 Aug 19A team of Polish astronomers has created the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way to date, revealing surprising distortions and irregularities along the galactic disk.Read more...
This 3D Map of the Milky Way Is the Best View Yet of Our Galaxy's Warped, Twisted Shape
SPACE.com - Thu 1 Aug 19A new 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy shows it has a warped and twisted shape, scientists say.
New 3D Map of the Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy's Heart Is Totally Twisted
Livescience - Thu 1 Aug 19Researchers have mapped the Milky Way in unprecedented detail using data from thousands of giant, pulsating stars.
Mapping the Milky Way in three dimensions
Eurekalert - Thu 1 Aug 19(American Association for the Advancement of Science) By measuring the distance from our sun to thousands of individual pulsating stars scattered across the Milky Way, researchers have charted ...