Thursday, July 3, 2014

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Black hole fireworks in nearby galaxy

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:53 PM PDT

Celebrants this Fourth of July will enjoy the dazzling lights and booming shock waves from the explosions of fireworks. A similarly styled event is taking place in the galaxy Messier 106, as seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Herschel Space Observatory. Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions.

Reinterpreting dark matter: Could dark matter be regarded as a very cold quantum fluid?

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:23 AM PDT

Astronomers have explored cold dark matter in depth and proposes new answers about the formation of galaxies and the structure of the Universe. These predictions are being contrasted with fresh data provided by the Hubble space telescope. It is estimated that only a minute fraction of the matter in the Universe is baryonic matter, which forms stars, planets and living organisms. The rest, comprising over 80%, is dark matter and energy.

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