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Quick Look: Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action (05-22-2024)
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action
Quick Look: Stellar Beads on a String (02-21-2024)
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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Tour: Stellar Beads on a String (02-21-2024)
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String
Quick Look: Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years (01-11-2024)
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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-- Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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Tour: Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years (01-11-2024)
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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Revised: November 03, 2022
