From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

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NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

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By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

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Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and outbursts. The central regions of galaxy clusters host the universe’s ...

From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.