January 22nd, 2009 
Malvika Sampat 
From The New Scientist:
Tendrils of dark matter channelled gas deep into the hearts of some of the universe’s earliest galaxies, a new computer simulation suggests. The result could explain how some massive galaxies created vast numbers of stars without gobbling up their neighbours.
Dramatic bursts of star formation are thought to occur when galaxies merge and their gas collides and heats up.…
Posted in Science News 
Tags: Computer Simulation, Dark Matter, Dark Star, Filaments, Hearts, Massive Galaxies, Neighbours, New Computer, New Scientist, Pairs, Smash Ups, Star Birth, Star Formation, Tendrils, Universe, Ups 
Comments Off January 22nd, 2009 Tushar Mathur From The New Scientist:
Tendrils of dark matter channelled gas deep into the hearts of some of the universe’s earliest galaxies, a new computer simulation suggests. The result could explain how some massive galaxies created vast numbers of stars without gobbling up their neighbours.
Dramatic bursts of star formation are thought to occur when galaxies merge and their gas collides and heats up.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Computer Simulation, Dark Matter, Dark Star, Filaments, Hearts, Massive Galaxies, Neighbours, New Computer, New Scientist, Pairs, Smash Ups, Star Birth, Star Formation, Tendrils, Universe, Ups Comments Off December 10th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
This is the central parts of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. By following the motions of the most central stars over more than 16 years, astronomers were able to determine the mass of the supermassive black hole that lurks there.… Posted in Science News Tags: Central Stars, Extraterrestrial Physics, Fundamental Processes, Galactic Nuclei, Galaxy, Garching, Gravity, Level Of Detail, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Milky Way, Motions, Munich, Orbits, Reinhard Genzel, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, Star Formation, Stellar Dynamics, Supermassive Black Hole Comments Off November 25th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
These images of three galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo (top) and STAGES surveys (bottom) show examples of how the newly discovered population of red spiral galaxies on the outskirts of crowded regions in the Universe may be a missing link in our understanding of galaxy evolution. At left, both surveys find examples of normal spiral galaxies displaying all the hallmarks of youth: blue in colour, they are disk-like in structure.… Posted in Science News Tags: Christian Wolf, Digital Sky Survey, Elliptical Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution, Hubble Space Telescope, Image Credit, International Collaborations, Missing Link, Nature And Nurture, Reddish Colour, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, Sloan Digital, Spiral Arms, Spiral Galaxies, Spiral Galaxy, Star Formation, Strangulation, Young Stars, Zoo Top Comments Off
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