This Mysterious Cosmic Substance May Be Older Than the Universe Itself—And It Just Might Be Immortal
It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...
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Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never seen it before
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...
Supermassive Black Hole Discovery Hints at Deadly Future for Milky Way
Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...
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Scientists retire Gaia telescope, 'the discovery machine of the decade'
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
Milky Way's cosmic anomaly could spell disaster for our galaxy
Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...
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Monster Black Hole Jets in a Spiral Galaxy Could Forecast the Milky Way’s Frightening Future
Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...
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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever Found
Spiral galaxy J2345−0449, 947 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Aquarius, is a very unusual object ...
Our Galaxy May Have Once Had a Second Central Black Hole
The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...
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Spiral galaxy discovered that defies everything we thought we knew about galaxies
A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...
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What would happen if the Milky Way's black hole erupted? This distant galaxy paints a terrifying picture
The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way, hinting at a connection between active black holes and the abundance of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...