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A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

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Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

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