Science news articles about 'luminous galaxies'

... Hubble Space Telescope, to study in great detail galaxies located 4 billion light-years away ... group can be ordered in a time sequence that shows how luminous galaxies continue to grow by merging until ...

Astronomers have found the least luminous galaxy known, but it's massive. The reason: It's loaded with invisible matter.

... big black hole would yank the galaxy's stars into a tiny, dense cluster at the center ... black holes are not scattered randomly in galaxies. The most luminous galaxies harbor the most massive black holes ...

... counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way ... objects may represent a unique window on the process of galaxy formation, allowing us to study relatively ...

... . BOSS will double the volume of space in which red luminous galaxies will be studied, observing 10,000 square ... of sky out to redshifts of z = 0.7; the galaxy sample will increase from 60,000 to 1.5 ...

... on Dec. 7, 2009. It will map the entire sky in infrared light, uncovering all sorts of hidden treasures -- everything from the coolest stars to dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies.