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Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls Into View – Dark Energy Camera Captures Celestial Phenomena
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter…
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Supermassive Black Holes: The Ultimate Snitches Giving Away Galactic Center Secrets
At the heart of most, if not all, giant galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. As matter rotates around and…
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Massive Stars Play a Crucial Role in Shaping Their Surroundings: How Do the Simulation Models Stack Up?
Figure 1: The 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home…
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Astronomers Discover Hidden Trove of Massive Black Holes – “We All Got Nervous”
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young…
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Hubble Captures a Turbulent Galactic Gravitational Dance
Hubble Space Telescope image of the large spiral galaxy NGC 3227 on the left and the elliptical galaxy NGC 3226…
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A Strange Surging Glow in a Distant Galaxy Could Change the Way We Look at Black Holes
This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy…
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Webb Space Telescope’s Quest for Primeval Black Holes
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The Webb Space Telescope team continues to…
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Unlocking the Mysterious Missing Links of Black Hole Astronomy
An accreting SMBH in a fairly local galaxy with very large and extended radio jets. Credit: R. Timmerman; LOFAR &…
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High Contrast Imaging Reveals Unknown Structure in Galaxy
Artist’s impression of a giant galaxy with a high-energy jet. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Astronomers have just discovered an unknown structure…
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Science & Technology
New Insights Into Neutron Star Matter: Combining Heavy-Ion Experiments and Nuclear Theory
Artist’s rendering showing the simulation of two merging neutron stars (left) and the emerging particle tracks that can be seen…
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