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Planet formation favors the metal-rich inner Milky Way
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...
NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...
200 Million-Star Tapestry: Hubble’s Astonishing New Portrait of Andromeda
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
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"We Are About To Learn Something New": Mystery Of "Little Red Dot" Galaxies Grows Weirder
A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...
Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
Unexpected Findings: Scientists Reveal the Milky Way Is a Cosmic Outlier
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Astronomers discover repeating radio bursts from distant 'dead' galaxy
Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...
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The Andromeda galaxy is finally viewed in all its glory, thanks to the help of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz astronomers
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.