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This Fuzzy Image Shows a Spiral Forming Soon After the Big Bang
BRI1335-0417, an early galaxy with spiral arm structures.Image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Tsukui & S. Iguchi A team of Japanese astronomers…
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Astronomers Don’t Know What Our Black Hole Ate, but They Definitely Saw It Belch
The Milky Way galaxy. Image: ESO/S. Brunier (Fair Use) In May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the…
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New Video Puts Iconic Image of Black Hole in a Cosmic Context
Zooming out from the M87 black hole. Gif: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration/Gizmodo Two years ago, astronomers acquired the first…
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Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space
The host galaxy of a mobile supermassive black hole.Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Some 230 million light-years from Earth,…
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Hubble Captures Stunning View of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2336
Spiral galaxy NGC 2336.Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt NGC 2336 was discovered over a century ago,…
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Astronomers Looking for One Black Hole May Have Found an Entire Squad
About 7,800 light-years away—within our galactic neighborhood—is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity.…
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Astronomers Found a ‘Benjamin Button’ Galaxy
The ALMA telescope sits high in Chile’s Atacama Desert.Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) At 1.2 billion years…
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