The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

One hundred degrees might seem hot, when you’re sweating through your shirt in July—but on a cosmic scale it barely registers. The Sun itself is over 15 million degrees; and in a hottest-object ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

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In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

According to a paper published this past week in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists found what could be the brightest known object in the universe: a quasar produced by a massive and voracious ...

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The study is published in the latest issue of The American Journal of Physics ("All objects and some questions"). Masses, sizes, and relative densities of objects in our Universe. (© The American ...

Astronomers report that they have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe -- born in the first one billion years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest ...

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