The Mysterious Bubbles at the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers have found radio-emitting structures jutting out from our galaxy's black hole.But the mystery filament kept showing up, and soon Yusef-Zadeh found others. What the astronomer had mistaken for an imperfection turned out to be an entire population of cosmic structures at the heart of the galaxy.
Mammoth galaxies generally host supermassive black holes , monster black holes with about 100 million times more mass than the sun, in their center . Previous studies have examined the galaxy in great detail and found the two supermassive black holes pumping out a ton of light -- but the new
Catching two supermassive black holes sharing close quarters isn’t that unusual . But spotting three jockeying for position is quite bizarre. In the study, an international team of astronomers identified three supermassive black holes lurking near the center of galaxy NGC 6240, which has been
© Provided by CBS Interactive Inc. NGC 6240 was birthed when two galaxies collided. NASA/ESA/the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration/A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) Huge, spiral galaxies like our home galaxy -- the Milky Way -- look like beautiful, starry pinwheels, but not all galaxies are formed with such artistic sensibilities. Take, for example, NGC 6240: An irregular galaxy approximately 300 million light-years from Earth that looks like a smashed egg and was formed when a pair of galaxies collided with one another.
Astronomers have long believed that collision resulted in NGC 6240 housing two supermassive black holes, but new research suggests they were wrong: NGC 6240 has three supermassive black holes at its galactic center.
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For the first time, scientists found a third supermassive black hole at a galaxy ’s center . Two’s company, three ’s a crowd for galaxy NGC 6240!
When galaxies collide, it means their supermassive black holes at the center of each galaxy collide as well. Recently, astronomers have detected a triple
The first-of-its-kind finding, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics in October, suggests that NGC 6240 may have been formed by a collision between three galaxies. Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the research team were able to examine the motion and mass of the black holes at the center of NGC 6240.
Mammoth galaxies generally host supermassive black holes, monster black holes with about 100 million times more mass than the sun, in their center. Those black holes keep galaxies like the Milky Way in constant motion, spinning billions of stars and planets around the galactic center, like a delightful cosmic carousel. NGC 6240 is a bit different.
It's huge, has an unusual shape and is incredibly bright. Astronomers suspect its intense light comes from the huge amount of dust, intense star formation and supermassive black holes that make the galaxy up. Previous studies have examined the galaxy in great detail and found the two supermassive black holes pumping out a ton of light -- but the new work, by researchers at the University of Göttingen and University of Pottsdam in Germany, shows an extra cosmic beast lurking in the galaxy.
Could life survive on an Earth-like planet orbiting a black hole?
Jeremy Schnittman, a research astrophysicist at NASA, tries to answer this question.Black hole, this is neutron star. Neutron star, meet black hole. You guys are going to get along just fine...
Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of bizarre objects at the Orbits of the G objects at the center of our galaxy , with the supermassive black hole indicated Ghez's research group identified an unusual object at the center of our galaxy in 2005
A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is the largest type of black hole , on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses (M?), and is found in
"Through our observations with extremely high spatial resolution we were able to show that the interacting galaxy system NGC 6240 hosts not two -- as previously assumed -- but three supermassive black holes in its centre," said Wolfram Kollatschny, an astronomer at the University of Göttingen and lead author on the study.
Related Slideshow - 30 photos to prove how beautiful our galaxy Milky Way is (Provided by Photo Services)
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Home to our own solar system, the Milky Way galaxy has captivated the imagination since the dawn of cosmology. Named after the dim ‘milky’ glow generated by the indistinguishable mass of stars that it’s made from, when the Milky Way is observed from Earth, it appears like a band, due to its disc shape, but is actually a barred spiral galaxy.
Facts and figures around the Milky Way’s size and constituents vary, with the galaxy’s diameter believed to be between 120,000 and 150,000 light-years. Within the Milky Way there could be as many as a trillion stars and 100 billion planets. With such incredible numbers, it’s easy to understand why until 1920 it was believed that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the universe, but we now know it to be just one of around 200 billion galaxies that we can observe.
NASA Mars Curiosity rover selfie celebrates rare scientific feat
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supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy , has emitted a large burst of infrared radiation brighter than anything ever produced by that black hole down the black hole drain has increased for an extended period, or whether we have just seen the fireworks from a few unusual blobs of gas
The center of our galaxy , the Milky Way, can be a strange place. It's notoriously hard to see Photos: Wonders of the universe. A collision of three galaxies has set three supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other in a system one billion light-years from Earth.
(Pictured) The Milky Way over Porth Loe, Cornwall, England.
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Giraffes are seen at Masai Mara in Kenya as the Milky Way looms in the background.
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This composite image of 14 (seven foreground and seven background) pictures called "The crown of the Dolomites" shows the galaxy over the Dolomite Mountains in northern Italy.
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The night sky at Nambung National Park in Australia.
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Seen from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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A tree is silhouetted against the galaxy in Masai Mara.
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Seen at Nambung National Park in Nambung, Australia.
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The galaxy is seen over Durdle Door near Lulworth in Dorset, England.
Hubble spots giant ‘alien’ face in deep space, scientists say we shouldn’t be terrified
If science fiction flicks have taught us anything, it's that when we eventually find an ultra-intelligent alien civilization they're going to have big, oval-shaped heads and huge bulging eyes. Hubble peered deep into space and there, sitting 704 million light-years from Earth, is a creepy face glaring at the rest of the cosmos. It’s bizarre and awesome, and its existence tells the story of a colossal collision between two galaxies a long, long time ago.
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The galaxy's arch is seen at Nambung National Park in Australia.
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The band of the Milky Way is seen over rocks at the White Desert in Al Farafrah, Egypt.
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Seen above the Isle Of Wight, England.
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The galaxy brightens up the sky at Nambung National Park.
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The Milky Way is captured over the Pentre Ifan, a burial chamber, in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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The Northern lights and Milky Way are seen with the Bamburgh lighthouse in Northumberland, England, in the foreground.
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Brightens the sky over Navarre, Spain.
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Seen over Mount Sinabung as it erupts in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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A star-struck deer gazing at the galaxy in South Dakota, U.S.
Scientists detected the brightest light in the universe for the first time, following a mysterious explosion in space
Astronomers had 50 seconds to turn their telescopes toward a violent explosion in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away.The explosions were gamma-ray bursts: short eruptions of the most energetic form of light in the universe.
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Seen from the Australian Camp at Dhampus village in Kaski District, Nepal.
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The Milky Way rises above the famous Landscape Arch in the Arches National Park, Utah.
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Seen in the clear night sky at Ngwe Saung beach, west of Pathein, Ayeyarwady region in Myanmar.
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The galactic center region is seen over the upper field of the Texas Star Party, near Fort Davis, Texas.
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Seen over Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece.
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The galaxy brightens the sky at Mount Olympus in Greece.
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The Milky Way in Sagittarius (toward the galactic center) going down behind the badland hills along the Red Deer River in Canada.
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The light band stretches across the evening sky near Petersdorf, Bavaria, Germany.
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Seen over the famous rocky peaks of Tre Cime di Lavaredo in Italy.
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Brightens the sky over Pantani di Accumoli park in Italy.
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Seen at the Pordenack Point in Cornwall, England.
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The image shows the Cat's Paw Nebula, a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Seen over Hamworthy Park beach huts in Poole, England.
Jupiter Is Flinging Comets Toward Earth
Some astronomers believe that Jupiter, instead of protecting Earth from dangerous comets and asteroids, is actively flinging objects into the inner solar system. New research now demonstrates this complex process in action. A popular theory suggests Jupiter, with its tremendous mass, acts like a gigantic shield in space, sucking in or deflecting dangerous debris left over from the formation of the solar system. That makes sense, but the Jupiter Shield theory, as it’s known, has been falling out of favor over the past two decades. A leading critic of this theory, Kevin Grazier, formerly of the West Point U.S.
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Astronomers have a decent idea about how some galaxies form and evolve over time. For instance,
the Milky Way is also thought to have devoured a smaller galaxy billions of years ago, which gives rise to two distinct populations of stars showing up around its outer edges. However, for massive galaxies like NGC 6240, the formation and evolution has been a bit of a mystery.
According to Peter Weilbacher, a co-author of the study from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics at Potsdam University, this is the first indication of simultaneous merging processes of several galaxies and their central black holes.
Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered 100 Light-Years Away .
TOI 700 d, an exoplanet orbiting a star 100 light-years away, is the first one discovered by NASA's TESS mission with the potential to support life.Less than two years after starting its mission, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has found what may be its first habitable planet, CNN reports.
Astronomers have found radio-emitting structures jutting out from our galaxy's black hole.But the mystery filament kept showing up, and soon Yusef-Zadeh found others. What the astronomer had mistaken for an imperfection turned out to be an entire population of cosmic structures at the heart of the galaxy. 
The next time the Nobel Prize recognizes exoplanet science, it could be for the detection of signs of life on another world.Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were awarded the prize in physics today for finding 51 Pegasi b, the first known planet orbiting another sun-like star. (They share the prize with the physicist James Peebles, for his theoretical work on the origins and nature of the universe. 
Jeremy Schnittman, a research astrophysicist at NASA, tries to answer this question.Black hole, this is neutron star. Neutron star, meet black hole. You guys are going to get along just fine... 
Curiosity delivers a scenic, extra-special Martian selfie.You can check out the full high-res image on NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab website. 
![Slide 5 of 30: [UNVERIFIED CONTENT] Panorama, Atacama desert, Chile, 2013.](/upload/images/real/2019/11/22/slide-5-of-30-unverified-content-panorama-atacama-desert-chile-2013__893975_.jpg?content=1 "Milky way arch - Adhemar Duro/Getty Images")
If science fiction flicks have taught us anything, it's that when we eventually find an ultra-intelligent alien civilization they're going to have big, oval-shaped heads and huge bulging eyes. Hubble peered deep into space and there, sitting 704 million light-years from Earth, is a creepy face glaring at the rest of the cosmos. It’s bizarre and awesome, and its existence tells the story of a colossal collision between two galaxies a long, long time ago. 
Astronomers had 50 seconds to turn their telescopes toward a violent explosion in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away.The explosions were gamma-ray bursts: short eruptions of the most energetic form of light in the universe. 
Some astronomers believe that Jupiter, instead of protecting Earth from dangerous comets and asteroids, is actively flinging objects into the inner solar system. New research now demonstrates this complex process in action. A popular theory suggests Jupiter, with its tremendous mass, acts like a gigantic shield in space, sucking in or deflecting dangerous debris left over from the formation of the solar system. That makes sense, but the Jupiter Shield theory, as it’s known, has been falling out of favor over the past two decades. A leading critic of this theory, Kevin Grazier, formerly of the West Point U.S. 
The Mysterious Bubbles at the Center of the Milky Way 
A Dazzling Quarter Century of Exoplanet Discovery 
Could life survive on an Earth-like planet orbiting a black hole? 
NASA Mars Curiosity rover selfie celebrates rare scientific feat 
Hubble spots giant ‘alien’ face in deep space, scientists say we shouldn’t be... 
Scientists detected the brightest light in the universe for the first time,... 
Jupiter Is Flinging Comets Toward Earth 
Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered 100 Light-Years Away 
