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Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
Staring down the throat of an ancient, *extremely* distant black hole
Phil Plait
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Another record-breaking quasar with a black hole that’s *too* supermassive
Phil Plait
Jan 15, 2021
Artwork depicting the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole in a quasar, creating a jet of matter blowing outwards. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
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The Universe is 13.77 billion years old. Probably. Maybe a little less. We're not sure.
Phil Plait
Jan 5, 2021
A portion of the huge survey of the early Universe made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, showing minute temperature fluctuations in the radiation leftover from the Big Bang. These variations are what eventually formed galaxies, stars, and you.
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Axions, dark matter, and neutron stars: How to find the Universe's most mysterious matter
Phil Plait
Jan 4, 2021
Dark matter is thought to have formed a huge web in the early Universe, like this model from a computer simulation, allowing galaxies to form along the filaments. Credit: Springel et al. / The Millennium Simulation Project
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Is dark matter made of teeny tiny black holes from another universe? Welllll…
Phil Plait
Dec 30, 2020
Fanciful artwork of baby universes spawning and growing in the first moments of our own Universe’s existence. Credit：Kavli IPMU
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What's the matter with the Universe? About 31%.
Phil Plait
Sep 30, 2020
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Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
Phil Plait
Sep 7, 2020
The ALMA image of the very distant galaxy SPT0418, distorted into a ring due to the gravity of an intervening galaxy. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al.
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The *entire* sky glows from the light of distant hydrogen. All of it, everywhere.
Phil Plait
Aug 20, 2020
A section of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showing hundreds of galaxies, with the MUSE observations of hydrogen glow superposed (blue). The glow is everywhere, coming from hydrogen gas in the distant Universe. ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO/ Lutz Wisotzki et al.
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Physicist predicts the 'mindboggling' number of years before the universe ends
Jeff Spry
Aug 17, 2020
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A huge distant galaxy went from making billions of stars to suddenly stopping. Why?
Phil Plait
Feb 6, 2020
The hugely sprawling Tarantula Nebula, a vast star-forming complex in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's currently making hundreds of thousands of stars. Credit: ESO
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The Sunburst Arc: A quirk of gravity reveals how the infant Universe lit up
Phil Plait
Nov 18, 2019
Detail of one Starburst Arc shows several bright knots; each is an image of the same region of the lensed galaxy replicated through the lensing process. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Rivera-Thorsen et al.
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The Legacy of Hubble: One image, a quarter MILLION galaxies
Phil Plait
May 3, 2019
Detail of the Hubble Deep Field shown at nearly full resolution.
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A quasar at the edge of the observable Universe shines with the light of 10 *trillion* Suns
Phil Plait
Jan 18, 2019
The quasar J043947.08+163415.7 (red) is extremely far away, and its light has been amplified by an intervening galaxy (blue) much closer to Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and X. Fan (University of Arizona)
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Pale, dusty dots
Phil Plait
Jan 11, 2019
A map of the sky using the far-infrared observatory Herschel; every dot you see in this image is a distant galaxy. Credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017
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Measuring all the light in the Universe. All of it. Ever.
Phil Plait
Nov 30, 2018
Omega Centauri
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A gigantic galactic city — still under construction — seen clear across the Universe
Phil Plait
Oct 18, 2018
A visualization of the Hyperion proto-supercluster based on actual observations. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & Olga Cucciati et al.
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