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"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...
With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...
New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...
What’s really inside a black hole? Long considered one of the greatest cosmic mysteries, black holes were first predicted in 1916 through Einstein’s theory of relativity. Yet it wasn’t until the 1960s ...
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...
A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...
Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.
Imagine dropping your phone into a campfire and later finding only a pile of ash. No serial number, no photos, no clue the ...
According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...