Tag Archive for: Astronomy

That Supermassive Black Hole in our Galaxy? It has a Friend.
Smadar Naoz is an associate professor of physics and astronomy…

Atomic motion is captured in 4D for the first time
Results of UCLA-led study contradict a long-held classical…

UCLA astronomer receives honorary degree from Oxford
By Lisa Garibay
Andrea Ghez, distinguished professor of…

UCLA leads development of first-of-its-kind telescope for gamma-ray astronomy
Researchers using the array will be able to study the gamma rays…

Space physicist wins Royal Astronomical Society 2019 Gold Medal
Margaret Kivelson, who discovered an ocean inside Jupiter’s…

Astronomers find that the sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface
Surprising observation might reveal what the sun was like when…

UCLA astronomers watch star clusters spewing out dust
Galaxies are often thought of as sparkling with stars, but they…

UCLA astronomers make first accurate measurement of oxygen in distant galaxy
UCLA astronomers have made the first accurate measurement of…

UCLA astronomers solve puzzle about bizarre object at the center of our galaxy
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by a bizarre object…