The secret recipe of black holes: Study finds they can 'cook' their own meals in space
Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye.
X-ray observations uncover merger process in a nearby low-mass galaxy cluster
Using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations ...
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History Made As Webb Telescope Finds 44 Stars Near Big Bang — Here’s How It Did It
The unique image, which takes advantage of JWST’s high-resolution optics, was only possible because the light from 44 stars in a distant galaxy was magnified by a massive cluster of galaxies in ...
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How big can 'ultramassive' black holes get? Scientists may have the answer
With monster ultramassive black holes like Phoenix A and Ton 618 out there ... The brightest galaxies at the center of galaxy clusters, known as "Brightest Central Galaxies (BCGs)," would thus ...
Researchers Spot Unusual, Overmassive Globular Clusters in Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy FCC 224
Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...