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It’s the cosmic event of the year. Right now, telescopes all over the world are turning to our galaxy’s center, where for the first time ever they may have a front-row look at a supermassive black hole consuming a gas cloud.
It's probably no surprise to anyone that really bad things happen if you fall into a black hole. Crossing the event horizon is even worse than being forced
This craziest scientific theories try to explain some aspect of our universe in a manner that just seems bizarre.
Double image of a distant quasar whose light is gravitationally lensed by a foreground galaxy; the galaxy is visible as the fainter source at the centre. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Muñoz (University of Valencia)
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Black Hole "Blazars" Reveal Hidden Side of the Universe [Video]
On March 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS;
Best-ever Ultraviolet Portrait of Andromeda Galaxy This mosaic of merges 330 individual images taken by the Ultraviolet/Optical Telesco.
The destructive results of a mighty supernova explosion reveal themselves in a delicate blend of infrared and X-ray light, as seen in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton.
This panorama depicts the surface of a newly detected planet, part of a seven planet system some 40 light years away.
Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year.
