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DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is in continuous turmoil, observations made using the James Webb ...

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NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena ...

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Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking ultra-massive black hole, weighing 36 billion solar masses, at the heart of the ...