Researchers help to explain how stars are born, cosmic structures evolve

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 14:01 in Astronomy & Space

Working with information sent from the Japanese Hitomi satellite, an international team of researchers that include Stanford scientists has obtained the first views of a supermassive black hole stirring hot gas at the heart of a galaxy cluster, like a spoon stirring cream into coffee. These motions (see video here) could explain why galaxy clusters […]

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