There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Shakespeare’s Hamlet) This article was originally published in Substack as “A Silent Monster lurks at the Heart of a Cosmic Lens: X-ray Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in the Lensing Elliptical Galaxy” We, bound by a common origin,[…]
Click the image above or the link below to launch the video. Description and download options available below. On July 12, 2022 NASA—together with representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), key partners in the JWST mission—unveiled five groundbreaking studies, along with a stunning array of images and data[…]
On July 12th of this year, the world was gifted with 5 studies and a treasure trove of data and images, content released through NASA’s Early Release Observations (ERO) program for JWST (attribution at the foot of this page). The great thing about a public space agency: the fruits and products of the agency are[…]
A quick video showing the placement of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies with the massive elliptical galaxy Messier-87 at its center. Imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope, M-87 is shown here surrounded by thousands of globular star clusters. Our Milky Way galaxy, a member of the Local Cluster of Galaxies is, in turn, a member[…]
