Thursday, October 24, 2013

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Astronomers discover the most distant known galaxy: Galaxy seen as it was just 700 million years after Big Bang

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 10:18 AM PDT

Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy ever found. The galaxy is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years.

How did supermassive black holes grow so big?

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 06:09 AM PDT

Galaxies may look pretty and delicate, with their swirls of stars of many colors -- but don't be fooled. At the heart of every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole.

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