“If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe.”
“Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries.”
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“We’re seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole’s accretion flow.”
The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.
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Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual “ingredients,” raising questions about how the early universe evolved.
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Greenland’s mountains greatly affect local climate patterns.
There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our universe grew up.
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NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have firmed up their commitment to develop a nuclear reactor for use on the surface of the moon by 2030.
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“It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow.”
“This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets.”
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