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"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...
Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...
Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently spotted a rare cosmic phenomenon known as the "Cosmic Owl". This structure is ...
What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...
According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...
The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...
Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...
NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...
In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...