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Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense core of dark matter.
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'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart'

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They believe this invisible substance –...
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RAS uncovers only known photo of Richard Carrington

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Professor Roger-Maurice Bonnet, 1937-2026

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A composite RGB image of the Ring Nebula (also known as Messier 57 and NGC 6720) constructed from four WEAVE/LIFU emission-line images.
Mysterious iron 'bar' discovered in famous nebula
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This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy.
'Reborn' black hole spotted 'erupting like cosmic volcano'
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Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense core of dark matter.
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'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart'
A composite RGB image of the Ring Nebula (also known as Messier 57 and NGC 6720) constructed from four WEAVE/LIFU emission-line images.
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Mysterious iron 'bar' discovered in famous nebula
This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy.
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'Reborn' black hole spotted 'erupting like cosmic volcano'
An artist’s impression of a bright quasar almost outshining its host galaxy.
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Astronomers challenge 50-year-old quasar law
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