Light is shed on darkest galaxies
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The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may be solved.
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Scientists see a galaxy whose light would have set out some 12.8 billion years ago.
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
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Black is getting blacker. Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the darkest substance ever made -- about 30 times as dark as the government's current standard for blackest...
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U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.
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Astronomers are finding more of the sun&#39;s sisters as they train two sharp eyes on the universe. NASA, ESA, DR Ardila, DA Golimowski, JE Krist, M. Clampin, JP
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A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago.
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Astronomers have found what they believe to be several of the earliest star-forming galaxies, in a detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images released earlier this year.
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Observations by an international team of astronomers with the UVES spectrometer on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory (Chile) have thrown new light on the earliest epoch of the Milky Way galaxy.
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One of the pleasures of    stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in    dark skies. These hues offer direct visual evidence of how stellar temperatures    vary.
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Astronomers discovered three dozen baby galaxies in what passes for nearby space in the universe - two billion to four billion light-years distant.
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A light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun could soon be helping scientists to read ancient manuscripts.
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SAN DIEGO - For decades, astronomers have sought to pin down a source for ultra high-energy cosmic rays. The distant sources must be among the more powerful events in the universe, perhaps the creation of black holes or the mergers of galaxies.
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An international team of astronomers has obtained the clearest images yet of the merger of two distant clusters of galaxies, calling it one of the most powerful cosmic events ever witnessed.
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- A new study reveals that the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is loaded with black holes, as astronomers have expected in recent years.
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Cosmologists may have to reassess their understanding of the evolution of the early Universe after surprising new data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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US astronomers have discovered massive new galaxies evolving in our corner of the universe. This means that galaxy-forming processes thought to have ended eons ago continue relatively nearby