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A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it…
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from…
The James Webb Space Telescope is doing something astronomers dreamed about for decades: peering into our universe’s early past, a…
How big is space? Space is really big. Thinking about our solar system, let’s imagine you could get in a…
NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our…
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope downloadable e-book, Black Holes: Into the Vortex is the sixth edition in the Hubble Focus…
Originally designed as a satellite dedicated to studying GRBs — gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos —…
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy,…
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown…
