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JWST Spots Distant Objects So Odd They Have Been Nicknamed "Platypus Galaxies", 12.6 Billion Years In The Universe's PastPlatypus galaxies identified in JWST data.

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JWST Spots Distant Objects So Odd They Have Been Nicknamed "Platypus Galaxies", 12.6 Billion Years In The Universe's PastPlatypus galaxies identified in JWST data.
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JWST Spots Distant Objects So Odd They Have Been Nicknamed "Platypus Galaxies", 12.6 Billion Years In The Universe's Past

clock-iconJanuary 8, 2026
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Two Black Holes Circling Each Other Captured In Image For The Very First Timetwo bright ovals are the jets in radio waves with other signal around them

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Two Black Holes Circling Each Other Captured In Image For The Very First Timetwo bright ovals are the jets in radio waves with other signal around them
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Two Black Holes Circling Each Other Captured In Image For The Very First Time

clock-iconOctober 9, 2025
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“Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual SizeArtist's impression of a quasar caused by a supermassive black hole in the early universe of the kind that has just been found to be smaller than previously thought

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“Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual SizeArtist's impression of a quasar caused by a supermassive black hole in the early universe of the kind that has just been found to be smaller than previously thought
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“Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size

clock-iconSeptember 26, 2025
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Galaxy Blasts Its Companion With Radiation In Never-Before-Seen "Cosmic Joust"two spiral galaxies are seen near each other. one is seen shining a jet on the other turning off star forming regions.

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Galaxy Blasts Its Companion With Radiation In Never-Before-Seen "Cosmic Joust"two spiral galaxies are seen near each other. one is seen shining a jet on the other turning off star forming regions.
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Galaxy Blasts Its Companion With Radiation In Never-Before-Seen "Cosmic Joust"

clock-iconMay 22, 2025
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Supermassive Black Hole’s Storm Throws Gas "Bullets" At 30 Percent Of The Speed Of Lightan artist impression of a supermassive black hoel pushing a lot of clumpy gas away

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Supermassive Black Hole’s Storm Throws Gas "Bullets" At 30 Percent Of The Speed Of Lightan artist impression of a supermassive black hoel pushing a lot of clumpy gas away
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Supermassive Black Hole’s Storm Throws Gas "Bullets" At 30 Percent Of The Speed Of Light

clock-iconMay 19, 2025
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Spectacular Jet Over 200,000 Light-Years Across Is Largest Ever Seen In The Early Universethe quasar is a bright compact object with two reddishi fluffy clouds jetting away from it

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Spectacular Jet Over 200,000 Light-Years Across Is Largest Ever Seen In The Early Universethe quasar is a bright compact object with two reddishi fluffy clouds jetting away from it
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Spectacular Jet Over 200,000 Light-Years Across Is Largest Ever Seen In The Early Universe

clock-iconFebruary 6, 2025
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“Weird Things” Around Enormous Black Hole Spotted By HubbleA Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as weird filaments, lobes, and a mysterious L-shaped structure, probably caused by small galaxies being devoured by the black hole. L

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“Weird Things” Around Enormous Black Hole Spotted By HubbleA Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as weird filaments, lobes, and a mysterious L-shaped structure, probably caused by small galaxies being devoured by the black hole. L
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“Weird Things” Around Enormous Black Hole Spotted By Hubble

clock-iconDecember 12, 2024
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First Known Double Gravitational Lens Is A Cosmic Telescope Into The Distant UniverseIn the center there is a yellow spherical galaxy. around there are six bright dots. Thse are the magnified qusars. around two dots there are red arcs, this is the image fo the first galaxy magnified by the second.

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First Known Double Gravitational Lens Is A Cosmic Telescope Into The Distant UniverseIn the center there is a yellow spherical galaxy. around there are six bright dots. Thse are the magnified qusars. around two dots there are red arcs, this is the image fo the first galaxy magnified by the second.
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First Known Double Gravitational Lens Is A Cosmic Telescope Into The Distant Universe

clock-iconNovember 15, 2024
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Lonely Quasars Seen By JWST Challenge Expected Formation TheoryThe image shows counteless galaxies including a bit one in the forground. A red circle highight a bright spot of light - that's the quasar with no neighbors

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Lonely Quasars Seen By JWST Challenge Expected Formation TheoryThe image shows counteless galaxies including a bit one in the forground. A red circle highight a bright spot of light - that's the quasar with no neighbors
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Lonely Quasars Seen By JWST Challenge Expected Formation Theory

clock-iconOctober 21, 2024
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This Is How You Are Using Supermassive Black Holes Every Day Without Even KnowingArtist impression of a supermassive black hole releasing a jet into space.

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This Is How You Are Using Supermassive Black Holes Every Day Without Even KnowingArtist impression of a supermassive black hole releasing a jet into space.
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This Is How You Are Using Supermassive Black Holes Every Day Without Even Knowing

clock-iconAugust 22, 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

clock-iconJuly 10, 2024
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Most Distant Pair Of Merging Quasars Spotted Just 900 Million Years After The Big BangArtist impression of two quasars merging with each other.

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Most Distant Pair Of Merging Quasars Spotted Just 900 Million Years After The Big BangArtist impression of two quasars merging with each other.
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Most Distant Pair Of Merging Quasars Spotted Just 900 Million Years After The Big Bang

clock-iconJune 17, 2024
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Remains Of The First-Ever Supernovae In The Universe Finally SpottedThis diagram illustrates how astronomers can analyse the chemical composition of distant clouds of gas using the light of a background object like a quasar as a beacon. When the light of the quasar passes through the gas cloud, the chemical elements in it absorb different colours or wavelengths, leaving dark lines in the spectrum of the quasar. Each element leaves a different set of lines, so by studying the spectrum astronomers can work out the chemical composition of the intervening gas cloud.

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Remains Of The First-Ever Supernovae In The Universe Finally SpottedThis diagram illustrates how astronomers can analyse the chemical composition of distant clouds of gas using the light of a background object like a quasar as a beacon. When the light of the quasar passes through the gas cloud, the chemical elements in it absorb different colours or wavelengths, leaving dark lines in the spectrum of the quasar. Each element leaves a different set of lines, so by studying the spectrum astronomers can work out the chemical composition of the intervening gas cloud.
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Remains Of The First-Ever Supernovae In The Universe Finally Spotted

clock-iconMay 3, 2023
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Earth-Sized Telescope Snaps Image Of One Of The Brightest Lights In The UniverseThree temperature maps showing two blobs one hotter (the jet point towards Earth) and a colder one, the one pointing away

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Earth-Sized Telescope Snaps Image Of One Of The Brightest Lights In The UniverseThree temperature maps showing two blobs one hotter (the jet point towards Earth) and a colder one, the one pointing away
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Earth-Sized Telescope Snaps Image Of One Of The Brightest Lights In The Universe

clock-iconFebruary 14, 2023
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Fastest-Growing Supermassive Black Hole Of The Last Nine Billion Years DiscoveredArtist impression of a quasar. Image Credit: IgorZh/Shutterstock.com

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Fastest-Growing Supermassive Black Hole Of The Last Nine Billion Years DiscoveredArtist impression of a quasar. Image Credit: IgorZh/Shutterstock.com
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Fastest-Growing Supermassive Black Hole Of The Last Nine Billion Years Discovered

clock-iconJune 15, 2022
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