Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn’t Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole
A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...
NGC 1546: A new image of NGC 1546, a nearby galaxy in the constellation Dorado, captured by Hubble. The galaxy's orientation gives us a good view of dust lanes fro…
From supermassive black holes to vibrant star clusters and nebulae, check out these 7 mesmerizing cosmic images captured by ...
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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...
Program: New theory on the origin of black holes
Astrophysicists at UCLA suggest decaying dark matter may drive processes leading to the formation supermassive black holes.
Scientists Just Found 300 of Some of the Rarest Black Holes in the Universe
DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
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Our Galaxy’s central black hole puts on a fireworks show
The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is in continuous turmoil, observations made using the James Webb ...
Astronomy: Black hole in satellite galaxy hurls stars into Milky Way
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...
7 stunning images of Andromeda galaxy captured by NASA
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured this stunning image of Andromeda Galaxy which is also known as M31. This image, captured by NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope, shows only dust which ...
One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...
Professor Brian Cox gives haunting answer about the one thing in the universe that 'keeps him up at night'
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