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The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe shaped ring by distortions in spacetime created by the immense mass of the foreground orange galaxy.
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'Most massive black hole ever discovered' is detected
Top view of the Milky Way galaxy showing the estimated orbits of both our Sun and the 3I/ATLAS comet.
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Newly discovered interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen'
The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation.
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The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought
Numbers of staff and postgraduate students in astronomy, solar system science and geophysics in the 2023, 2016 and 2010 surveys.
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Astronomy and geophysics 'still overwhelmingly white'
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