naturalsciences
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Astronomers See Largest Explosion in Space Yet
Astronomers have seen the most energetic cosmic explosion yet, which they believe resulted from a gas cloud being disrupted by a supermassive black hole.
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Ancient Gas Clouds Spotted by Astronomers May Be Remnants of First Stars
Astronomers operating the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope think they’ve found three gas clouds that formed in the aftermath of the very first stars, when the Big Bang was still in the rear-view mirror.
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Galactic Collisions Could Be the Source of Quasars
A team of astrophysicists say quasars, some of the most brilliant phenomena in the universe, are likely caused by collisions between galaxies.
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Astrophysicists Spot Einstein Rings That Boost Case for Axionic Dark Matter
A team of scientists studying lensed ‘Einstein rings’ of light from the distant universe have found that signatures in the rings indicate the kind of dark matter that inhabits the background galaxies.