A gargantuan effort by a huge international team of scientists has just given us the most precise map of the all matter in the Universe obtained to date.
“The great oak of Astronomy has been felled, and we are lost without its shadow.” –Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, on the passing of Jan Oort
In our Solar System, we have the inner, rocky worlds, an asteroid belt, the gas giants and then the Kuiper belt. Out beyond that, in theory, we have the Oort cloud, where a few of the longest-period comets come from.
A team of astronomers including Yale’s Meg Urry has discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of a recently merged galaxy.
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Hubble Space Telescope Observes Peculiar Galaxy Merger sci.news - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sci.news Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.