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"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The ...
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...
A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...
Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...
Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...
Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...
Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...