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Blindingly bright black holes could help cosmologists see deeper into the universe’s past
Most humongous black holes, astronomers suggest, have acted the same way throughout the eons.
In his first PopSci appearance, a young Stephen Hawking explains an incredible discovery
In the December 1980 issue of Popular Science, a 38-year-old theoretical physicist answers the ultimate question about the universe.
Astronomers just discovered a supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe
And it's much bigger than we expected.
Faraway Quasar Group Is The Largest Structure In The Universe
It would take a light-speed craft 4 billion years to get from one side of the group to the other.
Largest Quasar Ever Discovered Burns 100 Times Brighter Than Entire Milky Way
Glowing galactic center located near a supermassive black hole
By Linking Telescopes, Astronomers Make the Sharpest-Ever Observation of a Distant Object
Two million times sharper than human vision
Universe’s Largest Water Reservoir Discovered in Black Hole
Lurking in a distant supermassive black hole there exists a reservoir of water as big as 140 trillion oceans, the...
Hubble Zooms in on Hanny’s Voorwerp, a Mysteriously Glowing Cloud of Gas
Surely Hanny's Voorwerp is one of the strangest Voorwerps we've ever seen