The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

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Hubble’s image of Markarian 231 reveals the nearest quasar to Earth, 600 million light-years away, with two supermassive black holes. Hubble’s image shows a spiral galaxy passing through NGC 1275, ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 — In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...