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Journey 780 million light-years to witness the merger of galaxy clusters. Discover how different telescopes reveal distinct ...

Nov. 6, 2026 After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two ...

Pulsar timing array gravitational-wave searches have set the first mass limits on supermassive black hole pairs at cosmic ...

Gravitational lensing is one of astronomy's best tricks for seeing the early universe. When a massive galaxy cluster sits in ...

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies already existed in the very early universe. They grew by merging, but ...

When astronomers first saw the little red dots, they thought the objects were the glow of very populous mature galaxies. But ...

So far, observations by instruments including the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the presence of surprisingly ...

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday, burning up in the process ...

The video starts with Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. It compares it with ...

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Astronomers have traced the origins of an unusual cosmic formation resembling a musical treble clef to an ancient black hole ...