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By Robert Lea Published
Though their origins may be shrouded in mystery, fast radio bursts could be used to probe some of the universe's biggest puzzles, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

By Robert Lea Published
A "forbidden" merger between two black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. New research that suggests the black holes involved were smaller than first calculated.

By Robert Lea Published
Over massive supermassive black holes too big for early galaxies and detected by the James Webb Space Telescope may not be quite so massive after all.

By Robert Lea Published
Some stars encounter supermassive black holes and live to tell the tale. New research shows why the flares these encounters cause dim over repeated episodes.

By Robert Lea Published
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of galaxies with fading radio lobes, revealing what happens to these vast outflows when their black hole engines stall.

By Robert Lea Published
A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead "dark stars" that served as the seeds of the first supermassive black holes.

By Robert Lea Published
"We are very happy to have discovered as-yet-undetected phenomena in the jet."

By Keith Cooper Published
A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive black holes.
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