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"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...
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 ...
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...
A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...
Supermassive black holes should be pretty hard to miss. Just like Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is. While you can’t expect see them by going outside and looking ...
Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...