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Quick Look: Stellar Beads on a String (02-21-2024)
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String

Tour: Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years (01-11-2024)
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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Quick Look: Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years (01-11-2024)
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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-- Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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-- Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years

Tour: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole (11-06-2023)
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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-- NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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-- NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole

Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole (11-06-2023)
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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-- NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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-- NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole

Quick Look: Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered (07-20-2023)
Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy cluster with an important quality — providing insight into how these gigantic structures formed and why the universe looks like it does in the present day.
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-- Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered
Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy cluster with an important quality — providing insight into how these gigantic structures formed and why the universe looks like it does in the present day.
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-- Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered

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