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Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core.

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

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Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

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