Science August 31, 2020

Can Black Hole Fire Up Cold Heart of the Phoenix?

Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation Phoenix.

Science August 27, 2020

Rare encounters between cosmic heavyweights

Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) imaging data on the Subaru Telescope and other large telescopes, astronomers confirmed three "dual quasars," two of them were previously unknown. Thanks to these new discoveries, it's expected that the understanding of galaxies, their growth, and supermassive black holes will continue.

Science August 13, 2020

That Must’ve Hurt: Ganymede Covered by Giant Crater

Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have investigated the orientation and distribution of the ancient tectonic troughs on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede through a detailed reanalysis of image data from probe missions.

Science August 11, 2020

Classifying Galaxies with Artificial Intelligence

Astronomers have applied AI to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images.

Science August 7, 2020

Stellar Egg Hunt with ALMA—Tracing Evolution from Embryo to Baby Star

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolution state.

Science August 1, 2020

Machine Learning Finds a Surprising Early Galaxy—Breaking the Lowest Oxygen Abundance Record

New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, breaking the previous record of the lowest oxygen abundance.

Science July 10, 2020

The Lion’s Roar: New Telescope Spots Superflare in Leo

A new telescope in Okayama, Japan observed a superflare on a star in the constellation Leo to better understand how superflares on the Sun can affect technology and life on Earth.

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Science June 11, 2020

New Method to Study Barred Spiral Galaxies

Analysis of gas motion in 20 nearby spiral galaxies has revealed a clear difference between those with bars and those without bars.

Science June 2, 2020

Large Simulation Finds New Origin of Supermassive Black Holes

Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes.

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Science May 22, 2020

ALMA Spots Twinkling Heart of Milky Way

Astronomers using the ALMA found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A*.