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How are galaxies destroyed?
SPACE.com· 2 hours agoAt the heart of almost every galaxy sits a supermassive black hole. In the case of the Milky Way, we have Sagittarius A*, a beast weighing more than 4.5...
Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil - NASA
NASA· 1 day agoIt’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located about 750...
The Milky Way's last major act of galactic cannibalism was surprisingly recent
SPACE.com· 5 days agoNew findings from the Gaia space telescope indicate the Milky Way may have cannibalized a small ...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Raw Story· 18 hours agoIn 1838, a nearby star appeared to wobble because our viewpoint on Earth was moving due to our...
Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
Scientific American· 1 day agoDark matter has gravity, so it influences the way normal matter moves around and clumps up in...
Youthful galaxy in the early universe was a heavy metal rebel
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days ago(The Big Bang occurred about 13.8 billion years ago.) "We were surprised to see carbon so early in...
JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known Universe—And It’s Super Weird
Scientific American· 2 days agoKevin Hainline can time travel from his desk. This places it well within a mysterious epoch called...
The strange new worlds scientists have discovered this year
Mashable· 3 hours agoAstronomers continue to discover worlds beyond Earth's solar system, detecting hundreds of new ones...
James Webb Telescope: Researchers discover the oldest galaxy yet
Weston Forum· 6 days agoMInternational researchers say they have discovered, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most distant – and thus oldest – galaxy in the universe so far. The
Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time
IFLScience· 22 hours agoAt the heart of the galaxy OJ 287 is a supermassive black hole, like almost every other galaxy, but...
