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Scientists at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a novel method to measure the mass of the Milky Way galaxy based on temperature measurements of the hot diffuse gas in the Milky Way halo.
A paper about the research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters in late November.
The method proposed by professor Guo Fulai and his team uses the hot halo gas as a tracer for Milky Way mass.
The research group investigated the spatial temperature and density distributions of the halo gas, its observational signatures, and its interplay with energy processes in the Milky Way galaxy over the past few years.
Artistic conception of a neutron star. (Image: NASA)
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Astronomers are puzzling over observations that show a black hole smashing into a mystery object of unusual size.
New research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters describes a collision between a black hole and a yet-to-be identified object. At the time of this celestial tryst, the black hole was 23 times more massive than our Sun, but the unknown object was just 2.6 times the Sun’s mass, which is distinctly weird.
Astronomers find two failed stars wandering the universe together
Astronomers have discovered an exotic binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other.
A team of researchers from the University of Bern has discovered a very different binary system 450 light-years from Earth. The system CFHTWIR-Oph 98 or Oph 98 for short has twin occupants that appeared at first sight to be exoplanets existing in a star-less system. A deeper examination has revealed that they are brown dwarfs Oph 98 A and Oph 98 B respectively astronomical objects that are similar to stars but smaller and cooler.
This artist’s illustration represents a couple of planetary-mass brown dwarfs Ophiuchus 98. As they are very young, they are still evolving in the molecular clouds that saw their birth. (University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger)
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