A Requiem for Dead Galaxies
Traces of magnified dust offer a requiem to early, dead galaxies that ran out of gas
A story of light and darkness
There’s a problem with dark matter, and two possible solutions: bright, luminous supernovae, or dark matter itself.
A Dark Matter Fossil Record: Using Geology to Probe Time-Varying Dark Matter Signals
Move over, dinosaurs — the search for fossilized dark matter is the new trend in (galactic) geology.
An Extreme, Distant Quasar in the Cosmic House of Mirrors
Step into the cosmic house of mirrors at this quasar party at dawn!
The Magnetic Menagerie of NGC 1097
In the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, there’s more to the magnetic field than meets the eye.
The cold case of S0 galaxies: quiet passing or violent death?
Today’s paper looks at two types of lenticular galaxies — seemingly alike, they took very different evolutionary paths.