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Researchers believe they have found the signal of a pulsar, the ancient core of a rapidly spinning star, at the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole. This discov ...

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The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to ...

Researchers propose detecting tight supermassive black hole binaries via repeating light flashes from stars magnified by gravitational lensing as the pair orbits, offering a new way to spot these ...

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Kim Jong-un has reportedly chosen his teenage daughter Kim Ju Ae as his heir. The Kim family, who have ruled the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ for decades, have sought to cultivate a cult of personality around ...