News tagged with halo
Dark Matter in a Galaxy
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars, the most familiar objects in the night sky, make up only a tiny percentage of the total amount of matter in the universe -- about 2%.
Video game sales improve slightly in September
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After six straight months of double-digit declines, U.S. video game sales finally saw an improvement in September.
Invisible hand in invisible matter
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers have found an unexpected link between mysterious 'dark matter' and the visible stars and gas in galaxies that could revolutionise our current understanding ...
Dark Matter May be Easier to Detect than Previously Thought
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is thought to be embedded in massive, lumpy amounts of dark matter that release gamma rays and other emissions. Although at first these emissions seem ...
Social network for gamers helps friends play
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Raptr, a social network targeting gamers, is hoping to make it easier to see what your friends are currently playing on a broad range of platforms such as the Xbox 360 and personal computers.
Computer Finds Massive Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Astronomers Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black ...
Giant galaxy Messier 87 finally sized up
May 20, 2009 |
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The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut short, with a diameter of about a million light-years, significantly smaller than expected, despite being about three times the extent ...
Did 'Dark Gulping' Generate Black Holes in Early Universe?
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A process called ‘dark gulping’ may solve the mystery of the how supermassive black holes were able to form when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
For the First Time, Scientists Measure the Size of a One-Neutron Halo with Lasers
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Atomic nuclei are normally compact structures defined by a sharp border. About twenty-five years ago, it was discovered at the University of California in Berkeley that there are exceptions to this picture: ...
Playing a ruthless game
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Plenty of young gamers dream about playing videogames for a living, but Robert Bishop has a plan: It's all a matter of suckering in enough victims to make it happen.
New Limits on the Origin of Dark Matter
Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining the identity of dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe, is one of the most fundamental challenges facing modern physics. Through theory ...
