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Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a...
The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time,...
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map...
Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but...
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years...
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from...
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of...
Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key...
One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out...