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A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

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It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

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Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of an iconic active galaxy, providing the most accurate, precise ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...