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Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

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At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

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In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

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New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...