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A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

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Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

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In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

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Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

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