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What is a light-year? - NASA Science
NASA· 1 hour agoBased on the deepest images obtained so far, it’s one of about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Groups of them are bound into clusters of galaxies, and these into superclusters ...
At the heart of this distant galaxy lies not 1, but 2 jet-blasting black holes
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoA binary black hole system in an active galaxy about 4 billion light-years away has been seen...
Scientists may have found an answer to the mystery of dark matter. It involves an unexpected...
WKOW 27 Madison· 5 hours agoScientists call that dark matter, because it does not interact with light and is invisible. In the...
Scientists spot more Milky Way-like galaxies in early universe
Science Daily· 6 days agoIn a new study, the Mizzou researchers have discovered that spiral galaxies were more common in the early universe than previously thought. "Scientists formerly believed most ...
Hubble Telescope shares stunning galactic view despite recent hardware malfunction (photo)
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies...
Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
Scientific American· 3 days agoDark matter has gravity, so it influences the way normal matter moves around and clumps up in...
A New View of the Cosmos: VST’s Images Offer a Glimpse Into Distant Galactic Interactions
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoNew images from the VLT Survey Telescope depict distant galaxies, including the lenticular ESO...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Raw Story· 3 days agoRecent space missions allow us to see the apparent motion of billions of stars, but that still...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Detects Most Distant Known Carbon In The Cosmos
Forbes· 1 day agoThe finding —- made by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope —- used infrared observations from its current...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAs mentioned, black holes grow via two main mechanisms. One is through the accretion of cold gas...