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For decades, astrophysicists have wrestled with a basic but brutal question: how did black holes in the early Universe grow ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

Researchers from the South Pole Telescope project team looked deep into the center of the Milky Way, discovering powerful, ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

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The new research suggests an alternative origin. Dark matter could have instead been born extremely hot, opening up ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy. When you purchase through links on our ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

If you enter Drexel University’s Main Building, take the stairs in the Great Court to the third floor, walk towards Curtis Hall (go past the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery on your right), follow a long ...