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Galaxy with strangely-spinning clouds could unlock a cosmic mystery

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy with some strange clouds orbiting the supermassive black hole in the center. Rather than all

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The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been

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Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the

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A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky

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New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn’s moon

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Scientists have now charted the cannibalistic past of the neighboring galaxy to our own – Andromeda. The large galaxy now

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After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe – galaxies, clusters of galaxies and

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Energy is a quantity that must always be positive — at least that’s what our intuition tells us. If every

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For nearly 5 years, growing numbers of scientists have blamed the weird orbits of distant solar system objects on the

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Astronomers have discovered three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. Several observatories, including the Chandra X-ray

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Normally things happen slowly out in space. It can take thousands, millions or even billions of years for stars and

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So there you are, about to leap into a black hole. What could possibly await should — against all odds

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