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Like every year, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were announced for their contributions to science. The benchmark for 2019 was the broader field of Astrophysics, as Nobel shared with three scientists for their contributions to Astronomy and Read More …
One of the most important space missions was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 13 July 2019 (14:31 CEST). The launch was, initially, scheduled for June 21st, however it was postponed three times due to technical issues of the “Proton Read More …
ALMA image of the disk of cool hydrogen gas flowing around Sagittarius A*. The colours represent the motion of the gas relative to Earth: the red portion is moving away and the blue colour represents gas moving toward Earth. Credit: Read More …
In the last decade there has been growing evidence supporting the coeval growth of galaxies and their resident Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH). However, it is still not clear what are the physical mechanisms that drive the black hole (BH) growth, how the large-scale environment (the mass of their Dark Matter Halo, DMHM) affects these feeding mechanisms and what is the connection between the environment of the SMBH and the host galaxy properties, e.g. Star- Formation Rate (SFR) and stellar mass (M⋆).
More than 200 astronomers collaborated and using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) succeeded in taking the first picture of a supermassive black hole!!
ESA’s satellite, XMM-Newton, has recently discovered two giant channels of hot, X-ray emitting material flowing outwards from the Milky Way’s core into two enormous cosmic “bubbles”. These “bubbles” span about 50000 light years above and below the plane of our Galaxy Read More …
