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JWST Just Measured The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole 15 Times Further Than The Previous Record – "Something Completely Impossible Before"artist impression shows jwst on one side, the reconstructed original galaxy on the other and in the middle the gravitationally lensing cluster

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JWST Just Measured The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole 15 Times Further Than The Previous Record – "Something Completely Impossible Before"artist impression shows jwst on one side, the reconstructed original galaxy on the other and in the middle the gravitationally lensing cluster
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JWST Just Measured The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole 15 Times Further Than The Previous Record – "Something Completely Impossible Before"

clock-iconJune 5, 2026

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An Unknown Object Passed Between Earth And A Star In The Large Magellanic Cloud, In An Event That Lasted An HourThe Large Magellanic Cloud imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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An Unknown Object Passed Between Earth And A Star In The Large Magellanic Cloud, In An Event That Lasted An HourThe Large Magellanic Cloud imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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An Unknown Object Passed Between Earth And A Star In The Large Magellanic Cloud, In An Event That Lasted An Hour

clock-iconMay 28, 2026
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You Can Tell Your Children And Grandchildren That They Will See A Supernova On This DateThe image shows a bright central cluster in yellow and many smaller twisted galaxies warped by the gravitational lens. All of it is on a black background.

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You Can Tell Your Children And Grandchildren That They Will See A Supernova On This DateThe image shows a bright central cluster in yellow and many smaller twisted galaxies warped by the gravitational lens. All of it is on a black background.
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You Can Tell Your Children And Grandchildren That They Will See A Supernova On This Date

clock-iconJanuary 9, 2026
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This Might Be The First Time We've Ever Seen A Gravitational Wave Event Gravitationally Lensedtwo merging black holes warping space-time in front of a stellar field.

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This Might Be The First Time We've Ever Seen A Gravitational Wave Event Gravitationally Lensedtwo merging black holes warping space-time in front of a stellar field.
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This Might Be The First Time We've Ever Seen A Gravitational Wave Event Gravitationally Lensed

clock-iconDecember 23, 2025
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Gravitational Lenses Confirm That Something Is Still Broken In The UniverseA field of galaxies in space, dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them.

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Gravitational Lenses Confirm That Something Is Still Broken In The UniverseA field of galaxies in space, dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them.
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Gravitational Lenses Confirm That Something Is Still Broken In The Universe

clock-iconDecember 8, 2025
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"We Were Onto Something": Highest Resolution Radio Arc Shows The Lowest Mass Dark Object YetA dark spot is in the middle, the foreground galaxy. Around it there is a ring with two spots at opposite end. and overlay there is a thin red and yellow arc, the radio observations.

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"We Were Onto Something": Highest Resolution Radio Arc Shows The Lowest Mass Dark Object YetA dark spot is in the middle, the foreground galaxy. Around it there is a ring with two spots at opposite end. and overlay there is a thin red and yellow arc, the radio observations.
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"We Were Onto Something": Highest Resolution Radio Arc Shows The Lowest Mass Dark Object Yet

clock-iconOctober 10, 2025
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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Formthe artist impression show a spiral galaxy with sevel large bright clumps located across the arms

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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Formthe artist impression show a spiral galaxy with sevel large bright clumps located across the arms
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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Form

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Peer Into The Universe's Distant Past Thanks To JWST's Longest-Exposure Photo YetA field of galaxies in space, dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them.

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Peer Into The Universe's Distant Past Thanks To JWST's Longest-Exposure Photo YetA field of galaxies in space, dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them.
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Peer Into The Universe's Distant Past Thanks To JWST's Longest-Exposure Photo Yet

clock-iconMay 30, 2025
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Astronomers May Have Found "Cracks In The Universe" After Looking Closer At Suspicious GalaxiesIllustration of a crack in the universe.

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Astronomers May Have Found "Cracks In The Universe" After Looking Closer At Suspicious GalaxiesIllustration of a crack in the universe.
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Astronomers May Have Found "Cracks In The Universe" After Looking Closer At Suspicious Galaxies

clock-iconNovember 21, 2024
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Hundreds Of Stars Gone Missing? This Could Be WhyM4 Globular Cluster

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Hundreds Of Stars Gone Missing? This Could Be WhyM4 Globular Cluster
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Hundreds Of Stars Gone Missing? This Could Be Why

clock-iconSeptember 23, 2024
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Quasar Shines Like A Celestial Engagement Ring In New JWST Image a quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth.

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Quasar Shines Like A Celestial Engagement Ring In New JWST Image a quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth.
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Quasar Shines Like A Celestial Engagement Ring In New JWST Image

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Oldest Ever Star Clusters From When Universe Was 460 Million Years Old DiscoveredA field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle is a collection of dozens of yellowish galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features, which mostly appear to follow invisible concentric circles curving around the centre of the image. The linear features are created when the light of a background galaxy is bent and magnified through gravitational lensing. A variety of brightly coloured, red and blue galaxies of various shapes are scattered across the image, making it feel densely populated.

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Oldest Ever Star Clusters From When Universe Was 460 Million Years Old DiscoveredA field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle is a collection of dozens of yellowish galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features, which mostly appear to follow invisible concentric circles curving around the centre of the image. The linear features are created when the light of a background galaxy is bent and magnified through gravitational lensing. A variety of brightly coloured, red and blue galaxies of various shapes are scattered across the image, making it feel densely populated.
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Oldest Ever Star Clusters From When Universe Was 460 Million Years Old Discovered

clock-iconJune 26, 2024
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How We Could Turn The Earth Into A Giant TelescopeArtist impression of the Earth in space.

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How We Could Turn The Earth Into A Giant TelescopeArtist impression of the Earth in space.
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How We Could Turn The Earth Into A Giant Telescope

clock-iconJune 17, 2024
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NASA Wants To Use The Sun As A Giant Telescope To View The Surface Of Alien PlanetsArtist impression of planet Kepler-62f.

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NASA Wants To Use The Sun As A Giant Telescope To View The Surface Of Alien PlanetsArtist impression of planet Kepler-62f.
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NASA Wants To Use The Sun As A Giant Telescope To View The Surface Of Alien Planets

clock-iconMay 21, 2024
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Cosmic Web's Dark Matter Strands Revealed For The First TimeThe distribution of dark matter in the Coma Cluster is shown as a dark green cloud overlayed on a Subaru Telescope image of the cluster itself and more distant galaxies.

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Cosmic Web's Dark Matter Strands Revealed For The First TimeThe distribution of dark matter in the Coma Cluster is shown as a dark green cloud overlayed on a Subaru Telescope image of the cluster itself and more distant galaxies.
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Cosmic Web's Dark Matter Strands Revealed For The First Time

clock-iconFebruary 14, 2024
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