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Category: Astrophysics

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Scientists track the origin of exotic particles

Posted on May 4, 2025April 10, 2025 by Ben Pauley

Astronomers reviewed 7 years' worth of data on high-energy neutrinos and found they’re coming from an area of space that produces gamma…

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    Do black holes come in pairs?

    Posted on April 21, 2025April 22, 2025 by Ben Pauley

    Astronomers modeled how black holes merge and found that most converged black holes started as large stars in a binary system. They also…

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      This rendering shows a snapshot from a cosmological simulation of a Lyman-alpha Blob similar to LAB-1. This simulation tracks the evolution of gas and dark matter using one of the latest models for galaxy formation running on the NASA Pleiades supercomputer. This view shows the distribution of gas within the dark matter halo, colour coded so that cold gas (mainly neutral hydrogen) appears red and hot gas appears white. Embedded at the centre of this system are two strongly star-forming galaxies, but these are surrounded by hot gas and many smaller satellite galaxies that appear as small red clumps of gas here. Lyman-alpha photons escape from the central galaxies and scatter off the cold gas associated with these satellites to give rise to an extended Lyman-alpha Blob.
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      Astronomers find distant galaxies with neural networks

      Posted on April 7, 2025April 2, 2025 by Ben Pauley

      Researchers developed a computer algorithm that correctly predicted the light emission characteristics of ancient faraway galaxies based on…

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        "Pitch-black Exoplanet (Illustration)" by NASA Hubble is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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        How did Super Jupiters form?

        Posted on March 24, 2025March 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

        Astronomers profiled the characteristics of exoplanet TOI-2145b to explore the origins of Super Jupiters. They suggested these massive…

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          Alien life could face threats from passing stars and supernovae

          Posted on February 20, 2025February 12, 2025 by Ben Pauley

          Astronomers examined 84 of the closest known stars with potentially habitable exoplanets and found that 3 face possible extinction-level…

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            How did supermassive black holes form?

            Posted on January 30, 2025January 28, 2025 by Ben Pauley

            An astronomer analyzed ancient supermassive black holes with mathematical models and found they likely grew exponentially after light,…

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              Citizen scientists and AI help astronomers find galaxies

              Posted on December 9, 2024December 6, 2024 by Ben Pauley

              Scientists trained an AI algorithm to categorize distant galaxies using volunteer classifications. Their model could improve the accuracy of…

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                Astronomers simulate hidden minor planets across the Galaxy

                Posted on November 25, 2024November 8, 2024 by Ben Pauley

                Researchers modeled how planets smaller than Earth formed and changed over the first billion years of their existence. They found these…

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                  Searching for the first supernovae in the universe

                  Posted on November 4, 2024October 17, 2024 by Ben Pauley

                  Astronomers developed new theoretical models for how stars evolve that suggest the JWST could glimpse the oldest stars in the universe…

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                    Why do galaxies shrink?

                    Posted on October 21, 2024October 9, 2024 by Ben Pauley

                    An astronomer studying the 3 main processes that cause galaxies to lose mass found that the dominant process depends on the size and age of…

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