Astronomers make a huge mistake and confuse a new asteroid with Elon Musk’s Tesla: “It turned out to be space junk”
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (United States) had to withdraw the discovery when it realized that it was a ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
Astronomers discover new lensed, dual and projected quasars
Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...
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Giant Radio Galaxy Could Hold 30 Milky Ways, Astronomers Say
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
Astronomers discover repeating radio bursts from distant 'dead' galaxy
Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...
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Astronomers find the most distant supernova yet
JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.
Astronomers announce discovery of new asteroid — only to learn it’s a Tesla sports car hurling through space
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...
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Astronomers watch monster black hole spit out a light-year-long jet
Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...