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Milky Way's black hole

Space

Our galaxy’s huge black hole may have created organic molecules

The enormous black hole at the centre of the Milky Way was active millions of years ago, and its intense X-rays may have formed some molecules necessary for life

News

A man gazes at the Milky Way

Space

Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

Comment

The Milky Way

Space

A single star has let us put a date on our galaxy’s last cosmic meal

News

Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

Physics

Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

Physics

Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

Features

Map of gas filaments and galxies

Space

We've had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe

News

Andromeda galaxy

Space

Andromeda galaxy ate several dwarf galaxies in two-course lunch

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Galaxies in space

Space

Weird galaxies suggest our best understanding of the cosmos is wrong

News

spaceman

Space

Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

Culture

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

Space

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

There are strange bubbles of particles looming above and below the Milky Way, and they may have been blasted out by our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

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Space

Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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Space

Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

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Space

We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe

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Space

We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space

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