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Wild Theory Suggests Dark Matter Could Make Stars Immortal
Stars very close to the center of our galaxy could be fueled by dark matter in perpetuity, according to a team of astronomers who recently studied the distant light sources. The group of stars, known as S-cluster stars, is just three light-years from the center of the Milky Way (for reference, we are about 26,000…
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Webb Discovers Record-Breaking Black Hole Merger in Ancient Universe
The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 million years old. It’s the first time astronomers have seen a merger so early in the universe’s history, making it a record breaker. Black holes are massive objects peppered throughout our universe; their…
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Ripples in Spacetime Reveal Mystery Object Colliding With a Star’s Corpse
A neutron star merged with something unknown. Physicists think it might be a mini black hole.
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New App Points You Toward the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
If you want to stay grounded—which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality—do I have the tool for you. Meet Galactic Compass: an app which will point the user towards the whopping black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. As you read this article,…