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Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

A team of Chinese scientists has discovered an extremely rare pulsar that gets partially blocked by its companion star every ...

Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

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Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have found that winds blowing from supermassive black holes are not smooth and steady ...

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...