The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...
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The true scale of the largest objects in the universe
Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across beside it. But the Sun would be ...
Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It is 1.4 billion light years across and contains nearly 70 galactic superclusters. It is also hundreds of thousands of times more ...
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Dense dark matter clumps link three strange objects across the universe
A tiny object half a universe away, a scar in a stream of stars circling the Milky Way, and an unusual star cluster in a nearby satellite galaxy may not seem related at first glance. Yet a new study ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double the width of our Milky ...
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