Located at the centre of a galaxy named J0437+2456, this supermassive black hole has a mass about three million times that of our Sun Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black …
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Astronomers discovered the stars closest to our Solar System more than 100 years ago. There’s the three-star Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away and Barnard’s star about six light-years …
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More than 13 billion light years from Earth, the quasar J0313–1806 radiates vast quantities of electromagnetic radiation. This body, formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is seen …
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A quasar named J0313-1806 is the most distant one thus discovered, providing a window on the … [+] evolution of the early universe. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva Lurking at the …
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GAL-CLUS-022058s is one of the largest and most complete Einstein rings ever discovered. This … [+] beautiful gravitational lens is created by a bright, distant galaxy which happens to be …
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The Victor Blanco telescope is a 4-meter wide telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American … [+] Observatory, Chile. It is used by the Dark Energy Survey collaboration to study …
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The farther away we look, the closer in time we travel back towards the Big Bang. The latest … [+] record-holder for quasars comes from a time when the Universe …
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As astronomers look deep into space, they also see far back in time. Now, astronomers at the University of Tokyo may have found the oldest, most distant galaxy ever seen. …
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Award-winning documentary ‘Hidden in the mists of Time – The Travancore Observatory’, brings the forgotten research facility from the 1830s to new light Trekking up the arduous route to the …
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The strange star, as seen in this false-color X-ray image. Image: XMM-Newton/ESA/L. Oskinova/University of Potsdam Space is full of surprises, like this apparent star—which, given the tumultuous circumstances of its …
