Tag: Galaxies

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low-Earth orbit in 1990, which is still operational

Globular cluster is older than 10 billion years, like most other globular clusters, meaning that it formed in the earliest phases of galaxy formation. It is about 10 times less massive and five times more extended than a typical globular cluster and in the final stages of dissolution.

New York: Researchers have found that some galaxies appear brighter to astronomers’ telescopes because of faster rates at which their supermassive black holes swallow matter and spit out energy, not because of the way the galaxies face Earth, as earlier believed. For decades, astronomers have tried to pin down why two of the most common types […]