“We Exist Within a Colossal Sphere” –The Void that Harbors the Milky Way (Weekend Feature) | The Daily Galaxy

    Our Milky Way Galaxy exists in void –one of the vast holes of the “Swiss-cheese” structure of the cosmos– with a radius measuring roughly 2 billion light years in diameter –the largest void known to science, shaped like a sphere with a shell of increasing thickness made up of galaxies, stars and other …

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A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics | Live Science

Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself

Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of an accretion disk that formed after a supermassive black hole tore apart a hapless star.

Source: aasnova.org/2020/04/28/double-peak-and-destroy-accretion-in-a-tidal-disruption-event-reveals-itself

The Universe may not look the same in all directions after all – Astronomy Now

One of the core assumptions all professional and amateur astronomers learn when first entering the field is that at large scales, the universe appears the same in all directions, that is, it’s isotropic.

A paper accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics suggests that may not be the case.

An international team of researchers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and other data archives studied the X-ray luminosity of 842 galaxy clusters.

Source: astronomynow.com/2020/04/13/the-universe-may-not-look-the-same-in-all-directions-after-all/