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By Jan 8, 2018
Space

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.
By Dec 8, 2017
Space

Astronomers just discovered a supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe

And it's much bigger than we expected.
By Aug 28, 2015
Space

Scientists Find A Double Black Hole Inside A Nearby Quasar

Two holes in one!
By Feb 26, 2015
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Found: Early Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun

Gulp
By Jan 11, 2013
Technology

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.
By Nov 29, 2012
Technology

Largest Quasar Ever Discovered Burns 100 Times Brighter Than Entire Milky Way

Glowing galactic center located near a supermassive black hole
By Jul 18, 2012
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By Linking Telescopes, Astronomers Make the Sharpest-Ever Observation of a Distant Object

Two million times sharper than human vision
By Jul 25, 2011
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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...
By Jan 12, 2011
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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
By Apr 15, 2010
Technology

Mystery Object in Nearby Galaxy Stumps Scientists, Might Be Local Micro-Quasar, Might Not

The more we learn, the more we realize we don’t know. Radio astronomers at the University of Manchester in the...