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The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

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One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

A new paper from Harvard's sometimes controversial physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that if we want to find advanced alien ...

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Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...