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A Mystery Object in Space Flashed Brilliantly for 3 Months—Then Disappeared
“Holy sharks, Batman, it’s periodic!” I exclaimed on Slack.
It was the first lockdown of 2021 in Perth, and we were all working from home. And when astronomers look for something to distract themselves from...
These Distant ‘Baby’ Black Holes Seem to Be Misbehaving—and Experts Are Perplexed
Radio images of the sky have revealed hundreds of “baby” and supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, with the galaxies’ light bouncing around in unexpected ways.
Galaxies are vast cosmic bodies, tens of thousands of...