04-18-2017, 04:38 PM
A couple of other MK-related discoveries to report:
"Supermassive black holes found in two tiny galaxies"
The galaxies are "ultra-compact dwarf galaxies", tiny but very dense galaxies that were only discovered a couple of decades ago but contain something like a 100 million stars. Their diameter (100-200 light years) is even smaller than what's known as the solar neighborhood. The diameter of our Galaxy is 100,000 light years. The surprising news is that even these minute galaxies contain super-massive black holes at the center, something that really wasn't expected. The observations were carried out using the Gemini North telescope.
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-supermassi...axies.html
"Massive exoplanet discovered using gravitational microlensing method"
Another discovery of a large Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting another star using gravitational microlensing. The MK telescopes involved were UKIRT, the CFHT and the Keck II.
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-massive-ex...ethod.html
"Supermassive black holes found in two tiny galaxies"
The galaxies are "ultra-compact dwarf galaxies", tiny but very dense galaxies that were only discovered a couple of decades ago but contain something like a 100 million stars. Their diameter (100-200 light years) is even smaller than what's known as the solar neighborhood. The diameter of our Galaxy is 100,000 light years. The surprising news is that even these minute galaxies contain super-massive black holes at the center, something that really wasn't expected. The observations were carried out using the Gemini North telescope.
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-supermassi...axies.html
"Massive exoplanet discovered using gravitational microlensing method"
Another discovery of a large Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting another star using gravitational microlensing. The MK telescopes involved were UKIRT, the CFHT and the Keck II.
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-massive-ex...ethod.html