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Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the…
A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton suggests that…
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Data recorded by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of a neutron star as it passed through…
A new study led by Yale University astronomers tells the story of a galaxy that…
Galaxies with extremely high rates of star formation (from hundreds to thousands of solar-masses worth…
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The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized…