{"id":30381,"date":"2025-02-26T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30381"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:49:41","slug":"dwarf-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dwarf-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dwarf Galaxies Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A team of scientists in the US, led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Raga Deepika Pucha, recently discovered the largest samples of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies with active black holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Dwarf Galaxies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>small galaxies <\/strong>that typically contain just a <strong>few billion stars<\/strong>, unlike <strong>their larger cousins<\/strong>, which can <strong>hold hundreds of billions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are the <strong>most abundant type of galaxy <\/strong>in the universe but are <strong>difficult to detect <\/strong>due to their l<strong>ow luminosity, low mass, <\/strong>and <strong>small size.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are most commonly <strong>found in galaxy clusters<\/strong>, often as <strong>companions to larger galaxies.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Our Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 20 dwarf galaxies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They are thought to have been <strong>created by gravitational forces <\/strong>in the early stages of the creation of these larger galaxies, <strong>or as a result of collisions between galaxies,<\/strong> forming from streams of material and dark matter ejected from the parent galaxies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Because most of them come from galaxy collisions, many dwarf galaxies are <strong>grouped into irregular shapes.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>However, <strong>some dwarf galaxies<\/strong> have spiral arms or <strong>look like mini-elliptical galaxies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dwarf Galaxies FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the closest dwarf galaxy to Earth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The closest dwarf galaxy to Earth is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What galaxy is next to ours?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the nearest black hole to Earth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The nearest known black hole to Earth is Gaia BH1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/vijayawada\/andhra-pradesh-origin-scientists-team-opens-door-on-black-holes\/articleshow\/118434954.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwarf galaxies are small galaxies with only a few billion stars, offering unique insights into the formation and evolution of the universe&#8217;s smaller structures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}