A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a supermassive black hole.

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Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

This weekend, the Adler Planetarium is taking visitors on two fascinating journeys — one exploring the science and mystery of ...

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A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

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Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

The CWAS has also established an excellent dark-sky observatory approximately 15 kilometres from Parkes, that allows viewing ...