Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal matter. The two ...

Jet Set Black holes are some of the most destructive objects in the universe — but it's not just their terrifying gravity you ...

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A curious mechanism tied to supermassive black hole jets are causing more nova eruptions in the voids' vicinities.

The new study, published Aug. 28 in The Astrophysical Journal, draws on observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which whizzed past Pluto in 2015 and is now nearly 5.5 billion miles from ...

The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems ...

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers find more supermassive black holes in the early universe than previous estimates.

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are to be published in Astrophysical Journal; drawing (M) Several teams of astrophysicists think they have discovered and measured important component of universe's missing mass, the 99 percent of ...

research is published in Astrophysical Journal Letters; Martin D Brazeau and Per E Ahlberg of Uppsala University report that research on fossil of Panderichthys, 370-million-year-old fish that is ...