Astronomers have unearthed a new process for how a galaxy feeds the supermassive black hole at its core
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TRAPPIST-1 system found to be older than the Solar System
By constraining the age of the seven-planet system, we can better our understanding of its habitability
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Milky Way’s supermassive black hole reveals signs of relativity
By observing stars near our galaxy’s centre, astronomers have seen hints of Einstein’s theory of relativity
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Two potentially habitable planets discovered just 12 light years away
Four exoplanets have been discovered orbiting Sun-like star tau Ceti, two of them are super-Earths residing in the Goldilocks zone
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Baby black holes may have forged gold and platinum
Astronomers believe that the heaviest elements were formed from the very first versions of these exotic objects
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Astronomers see the dark universe with new map of the cosmos
The map is the strongest evidence yet for the theory that the majority of our cosmos is made up of matter and energy we can’t see
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Astronomers use the dance of galaxies to see how they merge
The galactic version of David and Goliath, reveal how these gigantic structures coalesce
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Dark matter likely to be cold rather than ‘fuzzy’, suggests new study
An international team of cosmologists have used data from the intergalactic medium – the vast, largely empty space between galaxies – to narrow down what dark matter could be
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Astronomers find never-before-seen regions of star formation in our galaxy
A research team has discovered new evidence of stars forming in the Milky Way
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Astronomers discover largest mega-structure of galaxies in the universe
A previously unknown, extremely large supercluster located in the direction of the constellation Pisces, has been identified
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Very Large Telescope captures dazzling heart of active galaxy
The European Southern Observatory instrument has caught a remarkable image of Messier 77
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Astronomers get rare chance to see ancient galaxy’s demise
The primordial gas of the Little Cub dwarf galaxy is being stripped away by its much larger neighbour
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Astronomers detect orbiting supermassive black holes
This detection of miniature orbital motion could be the missing evidence in the galaxy formation theory
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ESA spacecraft observes stars ‘running away’ from our galaxy
Using Gaia’s artificial brain, the paths of six hypervelocity stars have been deduced
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Unexpected nitrogen discovered in ‘butterfly-shaped’ star cloud
The stellar formation area has a peculiar section of compounds
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Largest galaxies were aligned ten billion years ago
Ancient light from the distant structures can tell us more about the early universe
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The making of TRAPPIST-1’s Earth-sized planets uncovered
The system has seven planets as big as our world that orbit close to their star
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Astronomers study volatile stellar eruption dating back almost 1000 years
The explosive behaviour of R Aquarii can tell us about the two stars that comprise the system
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Exoplanet found to be hotter than most stars
A new ‘hot Jupiter’ has been discovered and it possesses some infernal conditions
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Galactic nucleus discovered to be ‘heavily obscured’
The nucleus of NGC 7582 is obstructed by gas and dust, but how does this occur?