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Supermassive Black Holes Keep Galaxies From Getting Bigger

It's long been a mystery for astronomers: why aren't galaxies bigger? What regulates their rates of star formation and keeps…

11 years ago

Galactic Close Call Leaves a Bridge of Gas

[/caption] An ancient passing between two nearby galaxies appears to have left the participants connected by a tenuous "bridge" of…

12 years ago

Students Discover Millisecond Pulsar, Help in the Search for Gravitational Waves

[/caption] A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a…

12 years ago

Iconic Telescope Array Gets a New Name

[/caption] The pop culture-rich Very Large Array has been updated with state-of-the-art technology and to befit the VLA’s new capabilities,…

12 years ago

Students Find Rare “Recycled” Pulsar

[/caption] From a press release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory: In the constellation of Ophiuchus, above the disk of…

13 years ago