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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Back from the dead, a black hole is erupting after a 100-million-year hiatus

A dormant supermassive black hole in galaxy J1007+3540 restarted after about 100 million years, producing a one-million-light-year radio jet of star-forming particles and gas.
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fromBig Think
3 months ago

Jellyfish and bunny ear galaxies have cosmic consequences

Fast-moving galaxies traveling through denser intergalactic medium can be ram-pressure stripped, producing tails of material that can sometimes form stars.
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fromBig Think
3 months ago

The decline and fall of stars in the Universe

Star formation peaked about three billion years after the Big Bang at "cosmic noon" and has declined to roughly 3% of that peak and continues falling.
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fromBig Think
5 months ago
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Starts With A Bang podcast #122 - Galaxy evolution and JWST

Wide-field, deep JWST surveys like COSMOS-Web reveal common, uncommon, and rare galaxies across cosmic history, enabling new insights into galaxy evolution.
fromBig Think
10 months ago
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JWST's most ambitious view is now available to everyone

The COSMOS-Web survey illustrates the evolutionary history of galaxies, emphasizing how cosmic structures formed over 13.8 billion years.
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fromBig Think
10 months ago

JWST's most ambitious view is now available to everyone

The COSMOS-Web survey illustrates the evolutionary history of galaxies, emphasizing how cosmic structures formed over 13.8 billion years.
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fromArs Technica
9 months ago

Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms

Dark matter dynamically interacts with galaxies, influencing their evolution and star formation.
Simulations reveal a distinct dark matter spiral structure that may be common across galaxies.
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fromwww.nature.com
9 months ago

Large gas inflow driven by a matured galactic bar in the early Universe

Barred spiral galaxies' formation and evolution are deeply affected by their mass and gravitational interactions.
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fromwww.nature.com
10 months ago

Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds

The study brings new insights into the complex wind structures around supermassive black holes, highlighting their kinetic power and implications for galaxy evolution.
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