News tagged with distant quasars
Servicing Mission 4 -- the fifth and final visit to Hubble
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May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The combination of Hubble's powerful suite of instruments and its position far above the effects of Earth's atmosphere has consistently produced outstanding scientific results for nineteen ...
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Cosmic engines surprise XMM-Newton
Apr 07, 2008 |
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XMM-Newton has been surprised by a rare type of galaxy, from which it has detected a higher number of X-rays than thought possible. The observation gives new insight into the powerful processes shaping galaxies ...
Discovery Reveals that Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark-Matter Halos
Feb 22, 2007 |
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The discovery of dark-matter halos surrounding clusters of quasars that are over 10-billion light years away from Earth has been announced by an international research team of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
Serendipitous observations reveal rare event in life of distant quasar
Oct 21, 2008 |
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A bit of serendipity has given astronomers a surprise view of a never-before-observed event in the birth of a galaxy.
Quasar light variability linked to black hole mass
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Quasars are some of the most luminous and distant objects in the universe – and appear to have something in common with ordinary light bulbs, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the National ...
Colors of Quasars Reveal a Dusty Universe
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The vast expanses of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze of tiny, smoke-like "dust" particles that dim the light from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according to a team of ...
Mystery of missing hydrogen
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Something vital is missing in the far distant reaches of the Universe: hydrogen - the raw material for stars, planets and possible life.
A molecular thermometer for the distant universe
May 13, 2008 |
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Astronomers have made use of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a feat that had ...
Galaxy 'hunting' made easy
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered in a single pass about a dozen otherwise invisible galaxies halfway across the Universe. The discovery, based on a technique that exploits a first-class ...
Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...
Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
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