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The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

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A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.