Astronomers find a hole in the universe
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Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
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US astronomers find the smallest worlds detected circling other stars and say it is a breakthrough in the search for life in space.
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With the help of a modified backyard telescope, astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting another star. It is the first extrasolar world found with such modest equipment.
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By casting a wide net, astronomers have captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes.
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Two monster cosmic clouds could hold the solution to the mystery of the missing matter -- immense amounts of celestial stuff that somehow has eluded detection.
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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Astronomers find water in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System.
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Supercomputed big bang Scientists have a better understanding of the role black holes have played in the evolution of galaxies in our cosmos, thanks to a new and unprecedentedly detailed simulation of the universe developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.â¦
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The things astronomers discover as they probe deeper into the universe -- orphaned baby stars, planet-devouring black holes -- paint a bleak picture of "out there." Heck, we might as well stay home.
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Astronomers use the Hubble telescope to reveal the effects of unseen dark matter as it tugs on galaxies in a crowded supercluster.
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The latest image from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope highlights a stellar blast that was first discovered by an amateur astronomer a little more than a month ago.
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A team of astronomers steps up a project which one day could preserve the Earth from annihilation.
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An international team of astronomers have unexpectedly found hundreds of expanding "supermassive" black holes buried deep inside galaxies billions of light years from Earth.
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Astronomers say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.
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Nasa's Spitzer telescope shows bulky black holes lurk where they are least expected - in skinny galaxies.
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Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with unusual characteristics.
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An international team of astronomers has suceeded solving the 100 yearl old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.