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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224) is a truly stunning and colossal presence in our universe, located 2.5 million light years away in the Andromeda constellation. This supergiant spiral galaxy ...
The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.
About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...
Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...
Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.
U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
This is part of what makes galaxy clusters like PLCKG 287.0+32.9 (pronounced “Planck 287” for short) interesting to astronomers — “they carry memories of our early universe, therefore ...
That's right, billion with a "b." It's also believed to be a whopping 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.