Thursday, November 21, 2013

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Evidence of jet in Milky Way's black hole

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:24 PM PST

Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Finally they have found it.

The Galaxy's ancient brown dwarf population revealed

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 05:11 AM PST

Astronomers have discovered two of the oldest brown dwarfs in the Galaxy. These ancient objects are moving at speeds of 100-200 kilometers per second, much faster than normal stars and other brown dwarfs and are thought to have formed when the Galaxy was very young, more than 10 billion years ago.

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