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How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...
Some Venetians are concerned about the impact the three-day event—which includes 80 private jets and more than 30 private ...
Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...
"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...
A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...