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Ancient Black Hole Collision Spotted, Occurred Shortly After the Big Bang
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Dr. Sarah Adams
The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 ...
Astronomers close in on the mystery of the erupting Orion star system (video)
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Astronomers have puzzled for 88 years about how a pair of binary stars have continued to erupt over the course of a ...
Ripples in Spacetime Reveal Mystery Object Colliding With a Star’s Corpse
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Dr. Sarah Adams
A leading gravitational wave observatory recently detected ripples in spacetime that scientists say came from the collision of a dead, superdense stellar ...
Mystery Object in Deep Space Is Confounding Astronomers
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Dr. Sarah Adams
A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an ...