Baby galaxies grew up quickly
Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. View More (2012-05-17)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble discover quasars acting as gravitational lenses
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them. View More (2012-03-16)
The wild early lives of today's most massive galaxies
Astronomers have combined observations from the LABOCA camera on the ESO-operated 12-metre Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope with measurements made with ESO's Very Large Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and others, to look at the way that bright, distant galaxies are gathered together in groups or clusters. View More (2012-01-25)
Record-breaking black holes discovered, U of T astronomer on international team
An international team of astronomers has discovered two gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. These black holes have a mass more than 50 per cent greater than any other previously measured. View More (2011-12-06)
Record massive black holes discovered lurking in monster galaxies
University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered the largest black holes to date ‑- two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system. View More (2011-12-06)
Astronomers find that galaxies are the ultimate recyclers
A team of researchers from several universities and institutions, including University of Notre Dame physics faculty Chris Howk and Nicolas Lehner, has demonstrated how galaxies continue to form stars by recycling vast amounts of hydrogen gas and heavy elements across billions of years. View More (2011-11-22)
Astronomers use advanced equipment aboard Hubble to reveal galaxies' most elusive secrets
New, high-precision equipment orbiting Earth aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is now sending such rich data back to astronomers, some feel they are crossing the final frontier toward understanding galaxy evolution, says Todd Tripp, leader of the team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. View More (2011-11-18)
Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole
An international team of astronomers has used a new technique to study the bright disc of matter surrounding a faraway black hole. View More (2011-11-04)
Caltech-Led Astronomers Discover the Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet
Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. View More (2011-07-25)
Earliest watery black hole discovered
Water really is everywhere. A team of astronomers have found the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe-discovered in the central regions of a distant quasar. View More (2011-07-25)
Farthest, largest water mass in universe found, says study involving Caltech, CU-Boulder
An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. View More (2011-07-25)
Astronomers discover universe's most distant quasar
A scientist at The University of Nottingham is part of a team of astronomers which has discovered the most distant quasar to date - a development that could help further our understanding of a universe still in its infancy following the Big Bang. View More (2011-06-30)
Measuring the distant universe in 3-D
The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars - supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light years away - has been constructed by scientists with the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III). View More (2011-05-02)
New bowel cancer evidence calls for routine DNA repair test
Bowel cancer patients whose tumors contain defects in specific DNA repair systems are much less likely to experience tumour recurrence post surgery, results from a major clinical study have demonstrated. View More (2011-03-09)
Hubble zooms in on a space oddity
A strange, glowing green cloud of gas that has mystified astronomers since its discovery in 2007 has been studied by Hubble. View More (2011-01-11)
Cosmic curiosity reveals ghostly glow of dead quasar
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. View More (2010-11-04)
Astronomers discover an unusual cosmic lens
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have discovered the first known case of a distant galaxy being magnified by a quasar acting as a gravitational lens. View More (2010-07-16)
After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend half their lives veiled in dust
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express. View More (2010-03-26)
University of Arizona astronomers discover most primitive supermassive black holes known
Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars all came to be. View More (2010-03-19)
Merging galaxies create a binary quasar
Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies. View More (2010-02-04)
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