Astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole the size of 36 billion suns lurking within the “Cosmic Horseshoe.” The behemoth…
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The most powerful cosmic rays raining down on Earth may come not from distant corners of the universe but from…
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Read More »Astronomers have been forced to reassess the origins of mysterious, rapid radio wave blasts called “fast radio bursts” (FRBs). This…
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Read More »Using 16 years of data from NASA’s gamma-ray detecting Fermi spacecraft, astronomers have discovered that “microquasars,” systems in which a…
Read More »“Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can’t see you!” As that ugly verse shows, black…
Read More »Astronomers have imaged a spectacular thread in the cosmic web, connecting two actively forming galaxies that existed when the universe…
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