Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighbours
February 23, 2021Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the space between the stars of smaller satellite galaxies. In research published today, astronomers have…
Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin
May 21, 2020Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.
Supercomputer time to explore how black holes and jets have changed our Universe
April 23, 2020Astronomers from WA, Tasmania and the UK have been awarded 45 million units of supercomputing time to study the influence of supermassive black holes on their host galaxies.
