This illustration depicts two quasars in the process of merging. Using both the Gemini North telescope, one half of the…
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ESA’s satellites, INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton, detected and followed up on a gamma-ray burst from the nearby galaxy M82, which was…
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The RCW 7 nebula, featured in this Hubble Space Telescope image, illustrates the transformation of a molecular cloud into an…
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The upcoming Roman Space Telescope may unveil a new class of “featherweight” black holes, challenging existing theories of black hole…
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This artist’s impression shows the surroundings of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the active galaxy NGC 3783…
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Looking like glittering jewels, the stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image at left are part of the ancient globular…
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The Einstein Telescope is being built around 250 meters underground. With interferometers in the three tunnels, each ten kilometers long,…
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Michigan State University researcher Grace Sanger-Johnson found nine previously undiscovered X-ray flares from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central supermassive…
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This illustration shows a galaxy forming only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when gas was a…
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An artist’s concept of WASP-107 b shows turbulent atmospheric mixing within the planet’s gas envelope. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins…
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