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A colossal black hole nestled in the center of a distant galaxy controls its own growth and the growth of surrounding stars by pumping out energy at regular intervals, a new study says.
“It looks like a beating heart,” said study team member Mateusz Ruszkowski, an astronomer at the University of Michigan.
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Posted By: veronica | Nov 24th

 A new color-coded image represents the first visual evidence of the existence of dark energy, a mysterious force that astronomers think is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up.”This is the first time when we actually see the effect of dark energy in a picture,” said study leader István Szapudi of the University […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 12th

 
Hanny van Arkel, a 25 year old school teacher, was poring over photos of galaxies on the Internet last August when she stumbled across a strange object in the night sky: a bright, gaseous mass with a gaping hole in its middle.
Van Arkel posted a query on the Web site of the Galaxy Zoo project, […]

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Posted By: veronica | Aug 7th