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A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest ...

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Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating ...

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Located 12.8 billion light-years away, the black hole, called RACS J0320-35, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.