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Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...
The Fermi bubbles were discovered in 2010 by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The two orbs form an hourglass structure ...
The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.
A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...
"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...
They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...
Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.
Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...
Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...
This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...