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Black-hole-regulated star formation in massive galaxies
The centres of massive galaxies are among the most exotic regions in the Universe. They harbour supermassive black holes, with masses of at least one million...
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NewsBulgeless Evolution And the Rise of Discs (BEARD): I. Physical drivers of the mass-size relation for Milky Way-like galaxiesIn the standard Lambda cold dark matter (Lambda-CDM) cosmology, galaxies grow by gradually accreting material and through mergers with other galaxies. This...
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NewsCalibrating the Rossby number, a key parameter to study the magnetic activity of starsIn a star like the Sun, surface magnetic activity results from the interaction between rotation, convection, and magnetic field. One of the key parameters to...
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NewsChallenging the theoretically predicted mass-loss rate increase of blue supergiants in the bi-stability region of the stellar windsThe properties of blue supergiants are key for constraining the end of the main sequence phase, a phase during which massive stars spend most of their lifetimes...
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NewsCharacterization of the host galaxy from gamma-ray blazarsThe most extreme electromagnetic radiation that can be observed is known as very high energy gamma rays (VHE, E>100 GeV). It is the last window open to the...
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NewsChronology of our Galaxy from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting (ChronoGal): II. Unveiling the formation and evolution of the kinematically selected Thick and Thin DiscsResearch on the formation, origin, and evolution of the dichotomy between the thin and thick disk components of the Milky Way has been a major topic of study...
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NewsCollision of C-type Ryugu’s parent body with a rocky objectHayabusa2’s optical navigation camera (ONC) found many anomalously bright boulders on the dark surface of the carbonaceous (or C-type) asteroid Ryugu...
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NewsColouring asteroid BennuThe main objective of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is the collection of material from the surface of primitive asteroid (101955) Bennu, and to bring it back to...
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NewsConfirming new physics in spaceThe interstellar medium is an excellent laboratory to test physical processes that cannot be reproduced in Earth-based laboratories. In this study several...