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Scientists discover black hole with a mass of 14 billion suns

Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 14:26

Astronomers have discovered a ginormous black hole in a galaxy 220 million light years away that could change our understanding of how galaxies evolve.

`Hot` gas bridge connecting pair of galaxy clusters spotted

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 18:33

A bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space has been detected for the first time using ESA’s Planck space telescope.

Neanderthals `bred with modern humans` 37,000 years ago

Last Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 13:53

Modern Europeans interbred with Neanderthals as recently as 37,000 years ago, a new research has found.

Dark matter mystery may be near to being solved

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:29

With the latest observations from the Planck satellite, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, may be closer than ever to a solution to the origin of the mysterious dark matter.

`MRI` of sun’s interior plasma motions created

Last Updated: Monday, July 9, 2012, 17:57

Researchers have created an “MRI” of the Sun’s interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface.

Methane on Mars `not an indication for life`

Last Updated: Friday, June 1, 2012, 12:58

Researchers has found a major source of methane on Mars, which may bring “down to earth” all those who firmly believe in the biological origin of the gas.

Oldest `impossible` alien worlds discovered

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 17:38

Scientists have discovered two giant exoplanets orbiting a metal-poor star 375 light-years away.

Entire genome of Denisovan decoded from finger bone

Last Updated: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 12:50

German anthropologists have decoded the entire genome sequence of a Denisovan from a finger bone fossil, a study reveals.

ESA`s Planck mission delivers first all-sky image

Last Updated: Monday, July 5, 2010, 16:35

The European Space Agency`s Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image.

Europe`s Planck observatory spies massive dust clouds

Last Updated: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 18:15

Europe`s Planck observatory has once again come up with remarkable performance. It’s the most important aim of the Universe, but it will initiate this task when the present surveying will be over.

Planck telescope beams first images from space

Last Updated: Friday, September 18, 2009, 12:38

The Planck observatory, which was sent into space to record the origins of the universe, has beamed back first images of the fall out after the Big Bang.