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Scientists find monster black holes
Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist - each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. A team led by astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the two gigantic black holes in clusters of elliptical ga
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First System Developed for Assessing the Odds of Life On Other Worlds
Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" grows ever-longer, the search for life beyond our solar
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Youngest Supernova Right After Its Explosion
Astronomers have obtained a never-before achieved radio astronomical photograph of the youngest supernova. Fourteen days after the explosion of a star in the galaxy Galàxia del Remolí (M51) last June, coordinated telescopes around Europe have t
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Life’s Building Blocks May Have Been Found on Mars
NASA's Viking landers may have detected the ingredients for life on Mars after all, according to a new study. Back in the 1970s, the two Viking probes scooped up and heated Martian dirt, then looked for organic molecules — the carbon-based build
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