galaxies

The elliptical galaxy M87 has a supermassive black hole in its heart (far too small to be seen in this Hubble image).
A fleet of telescopes on and above Earth zooms in on M87’s enormous black hole
Phil Plait
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What tossed a supermassive black hole around in the center of a distant galaxy?
Phil Plait
Mar 16, 2021
Black hole with accretion disk and jets
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The Universe is acting funny. Or we’re looking at it wrong.
Phil Plait
Mar 10, 2021
The elliptical galaxy IC 2006, which lies about 65 million light years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Image acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt and J. Blakeslee (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory). Note that the image is not related to science release
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Staring down the throat of an ancient, *extremely* distant black hole
Phil Plait
Feb 23, 2021
Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky
Phil Plait
Feb 8, 2021
A small group of galaxies called the Copeland Septet, seen in the DESI Legacy Sky Surveys. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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Hubble's half-dozen cosmic train wrecks
Phil Plait
Jan 22, 2021
NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding spiral galaxies, part of a survey to look at star clusters that form in the aftermath. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo et al.
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How do you find when a supernova blew? Run the clock backwards.
Phil Plait
Jan 18, 2021
The supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, seen by Hubble Space Telescope. Careful measurements of the expanding debris over time has indicated the star blew up 1738 (±175) years ago. Gas colored blue is moving toward Earth, gas colored red moving away.
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So how many supermassive black holes *are* there in Holmberg 15A anyway?
Phil Plait
Jan 11, 2021
Abell 85, a galaxy cluster with over 400 galaxy members. Holmberg 15A is the central elliptical galaxy, and is extremely massive. Credit: Matthias Kluge/USM/MPE
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This galaxy is spawning stars too fast for its monster black hole to eat them
Elizabeth Rayne
Dec 18, 2020
NASA image of CQ 4479
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Like a runaway locomotive, NGC 1265 is leaving a 'smoke' trail behind it
Phil Plait
Dec 3, 2020
NGC 1265 is a galaxy blowing tremendously long jets of gas that emit radio waves, and as it moves through gas between galaxies those jets get blown back. Credit: M. Gendron-Marsolais et al.; S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; SDSS.
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You think *you're* isolated today? Meet the galaxy MCG+01-02-015
Phil Plait
Nov 26, 2020
The galaxy MCG+01-02-015, a lovely spiral that happens to sit in a very empty region of the Universe. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Gorin (STScI) and Judy Schmidt
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The tweet that led to a science paper about galactic crepuscular rays
Phil Plait
Nov 23, 2020
IC 5063 is an active galaxy where shadows tens of thousands of light years long are being cast from the center. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and W. P . Maksym (CfA)
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How do you feed the insatiable appetite of a nuclear black hole?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 10, 2020
spiral galaxy M51
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Astronomers get a front row seat to a star getting torn apart by a huge black hole
Phil Plait
Oct 12, 2020
Artwork depicting a tidal disruption event, when a star is torn apart by a black hole. A stream of matter is puller off, forming a disk around the black hole and creating an outflow of high-speed material. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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Not aliens but ORCs: What are these mysterious giant radio rings in the sky?
Phil Plait
Sep 10, 2020
ORC 1, a ring of radio emission in the sky that is as yet unexplained. Credit: Norris et al.
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Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
Phil Plait
Sep 7, 2020
The ALMA image of the very distant galaxy SPT0418, distorted into a ring due to the gravity of an intervening galaxy. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al.
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