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The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view ...

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A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...

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A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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