Planetary Science Black Holes Like To Eat, But Have A Variety of Table Manners (Planetary Science) 13 Apr 2021 All supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies appear to have periods when they swallow matter from their close surroundings. But that is about as far as the similarities…
Astronomy 27 Million Galaxy Morphologies Quantified And Cataloged With the Help of Machine Learning (Astronomy) 12 Apr 2021 Using data from the Dark Energy Survey, researchers from the Department of Physics & Astronomy produced the largest catalog of galaxy morphology classifications to date. Research from Penn’s Department of Physics…
Astronomy Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies (Astronomy) 7 Apr 2021 Gemini North spectroscopically resolves a pair of quasars that are closer together than any yet discovered in the distant Universe Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the…
Astronomy Hubble Spots Double Quasars in Merging Galaxies (Astronomy) 6 Apr 2021 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into the universe's past, Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other…
Astronomy This Deep Learning Model Turns Blurred Galactic Images Into Clearer Ones (Astronomy) 30 Mar 202130 Mar 2021 Gan and colleagues proposed a new deep learning method called generative adversarial networks (GAN's) to turn blurred galactic images into clearer ones. Classification of galactic morphologies has long been a…
Astronomy Black Hole Key to Galaxies Behemoths (Cosmology / Astronomy) 29 Mar 2021 A new black hole breaks the record –– not for being the smallest or the biggest –– but for being right in the middle. The recently discovered ‘Goldilocks’ black hole…
Astronomy Picture Of The Week: Return to the Veil Nebula (Astronomy) 29 Mar 2021 This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in a previous Hubble photo release, but now new processing techniques have been applied,…
