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    Black Hole research could Aid Understanding of how Small Galaxies Evolve

    January 10, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Size comparison of a dwarf galaxy (right inset, bottom) with a larger galaxy in the centre. Top inset: Dwarf galaxy overlain with some of the MaNGA data, revealing the winds from the supermassive black hole. Credit: Samantha Penny (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) and the SDSS collaboration

    Size comparison of a dwarf galaxy (right inset, bottom) with a larger galaxy in the centre. Top inset: Dwarf galaxy overlain with some of the MaNGA data, revealing the winds from the supermassive black hole. Credit: Samantha Penny (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) and the SDSS collaboration

    Scientists have solved a cosmic mystery by finding evidence that supermassive black holes prevent stars forming in some smaller galaxies. These giant black holes are over a million times more massive than the sun and sit in the centre of galaxies sending out powerful winds that quench the star-making process...

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    Astronomers find 7 Dwarf-Galaxy Groups, the Building Blocks of Massive Galaxies

    January 25, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    TNT dwarf groups.

    TNT dwarf groups. Three colour images of four of the dwarf groups obtained with the Maryland–Magellan Tunable Filter (MMTF) Fabry Perot (Δλ = 10 Å) for dm1049+09 (top left), dm1349-02 (top right) and dm1623+15 (bottom left), and with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (Δλ = 50 Å) for dm1719+30 (bottom right). Red corresponds to Hα, green corresponds to MMTF or Gemini r-band, and blue corresponds to SDSS g-band. Velocities derived from optical spectroscopy are noted for each group member.

    Dwarf galaxies, nuggets of stars and gas 100 to 1,000 times smaller than the Milky Way, are thought to be the building blocks of massive galaxies. Evidence for groups of merging dwarf galaxies, however, has been lacking, until now...

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    Large No. of Dwarf Galaxies discovered in Early Universe

    November 22, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Massive cluster of galaxies Abell 1689 creates a strong gravitational effect on background and older galaxies, seen as arcs of light. Astronomers found the large population of distant dwarf galaxies from when the universe was between two to six billion years old. This cosmic time is critical as it is the most productive time for star formation in the universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Siana, and A. Alavi

    Massive cluster of galaxies Abell 1689 creates a strong gravitational effect on background and older galaxies, seen as arcs of light. Astronomers found the large population of distant dwarf galaxies from when the universe was between two to six billion years old. This cosmic time is critical as it is the most productive time for star formation in the universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Siana, and A. Alavi

    Using the gravitational lensing, astronomers have discovered a large number of dwarf galaxies in the early universe. This could reveal important details about a productive period of star formation in the universe billions of years ago. The findings build on a growing body of knowledge about dwarf galaxies, the smallest and dimmest galaxies in the universe.

    It is believed that dwarf galaxies p...

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    Hubble Uncovers a Galaxy Pair coming in from the Wilderness

    August 13, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the glow of new stars in these small, ancient galaxies, called Pisces A and Pisces B. The dwarf galaxies have lived in isolation for billions of years and are just now beginning to make stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Tollerud (STScI)

    NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the glow of new stars in these small, ancient galaxies, called Pisces A and Pisces B. The dwarf galaxies have lived in isolation for billions of years and are just now beginning to make stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Tollerud (STScI)

    Hubble has uncovered 2 tiny dwarf galaxies that have wandered from a vast cosmic wilderness into a nearby “big city” packed with galaxies. After being quiescent for billions of years, they are ready to party by starting a firestorm of star birth. “These Hubble images may be snapshots of what present-day dwarf galaxies may have been like at earlier epochs,” said Erik Tollerud of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland...

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