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Astronomers Discover Record-Breaking Jets Escaping a Black Hole, the Longest Ever Seen
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end
See 25 Stunning Images of the Cosmos From the Chandra X-Ray Observatory as It Celebrates 25 Years in Space
Chandra, the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope, has been peering at black holes, stellar explosions and dark energy for a quarter-century
James Webb Telescope Detects Earliest Known Black Hole Merger, Just 740 Million Years After the Big Bang
The new observations could help explain how black holes became so massive in the early universe
Physicist Peter Higgs, Who Prompted a Decades-Long Search for a Tiny Particle, Dies at 94
The Nobel Prize winner predicted the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that scientists successfully discovered in 2012, explaining how particles get their mass and underlying a key theory of the universe
Dark Energy Could Be Evolving Over Time, Raising Questions About the Nature of the Cosmos
The largest 3D map of the universe ever made hints that dark energy might not be a constant, though the findings must be backed up with more data
Astronomers Discover the Brightest Known Object in the Universe, Shining 500 Trillion Times as Bright as the Sun
The quasar—a glowing, active core of a galaxy—has a black hole at its center that consumes more than a sun’s-worth of mass each day
Astronomers Spot the Oldest Black Hole Ever Seen, Shedding Light on the Early Universe
Dating to just 470 million years after the Big Bang, the ancient cosmic structure could help researchers understand how the first black holes formed
See the First Dazzling Images From the Euclid Space Telescope
The European Space Agency's observatory will map one-third of the sky over six years in a mission to understand the universe's dark matter and dark energy
Astronomers Find Powerful 'Fast Radio Burst' That Traveled for Eight Billion Years
The strong blast of radio waves is the oldest known, and it could tell scientists more about the mysterious matter that lies between galaxies
The Science Behind the Multiverse in 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'
The movie that won Best Picture imagines a reality composed of an uncountable number of universes
What Does the Universe Sound Like?
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and other researchers have melded astronomy and music to offer a new oeuvre
Webb Telescope Finds Evidence of Massive Galaxies That Defy Theories of the Early Universe
The six “universe breakers” appear much larger than what scientists thought was possible at that time
A Space Flash Detected in February Was a Black Hole Devouring an Unassuming Star
The bright light was the result of a rare cosmic occurrence known as a tidal disruption event
This 18-Year-Old Recreated the ‘Entire Universe’ in Minecraft
From the video game's blocks, he built galaxies, a nebula, a black hole and the solar system
See the James Webb Space Telescope's Dazzling New Photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy
Located 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, the galaxy got its unique wagon wheel-like shape from a cosmic collision
New Project Aims to Create Most Detailed 3-D Map of the Universe
An instrument named “DESI” will chart up to 40 million galaxies, ten times more than any previous survey
This 13-Billion-Year-Old Supermassive Black Hole Is the Oldest Ever Found
Huge black hole is so old it offers a glimpse into the early universe, and so big it challenges ideas of how black holes form
New Generation of Dark Matter Experiments Gear Up to Search for Elusive Particle
Deep underground, in abandoned gold and nickel mines, vats of liquid xenon and silicon germanium crystals will be tuned to detect invisible matter
For the First Time, a National U.S. Observatory Has Been Named for a Female Astronomer: Vera Rubin
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will image the entire visible night sky every few nights
Three Things to Know About Europe's New Exoplanet Space Telescope
CHEOPS is the first exoplanet satellite devoted specifically to learning more about the thousands of planets we have already found
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