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Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way.
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Lagoon Nebula
This colourful cloud of glowing interstellar gas is just a tiny part of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery.
One of the most fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity is the existence of black holes.
An Australian-led group of astronomers working with European collaborators has revealed the "DNA" of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the darkness. Despite its beauty, this cluster bears the distinctly unpoetic name of PLCK G308.3-20.2.
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe's earliest light to map huge tubelike structures invisible to our eyes - known as filaments - that serve as superhighways for delivering matter to dense hubs such as galaxy clusters.
The HESS international collaboration, to which CNRS and CEA contribute, has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way.
Spectacular new pictures, created from images from both ground- and space-based telescopes, tell the story of the hunt for an elusive missing object hidden amid a complex tangle of gaseous filaments in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200 000 light-years from Earth.
An international team of researchers has imaged newly forming jets of plasma from a massive black hole with unprecedented accuracy.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a collection of stars born shortly after the Big Bang.
This winter has brought many intense and powerful storms, with cold fronts sweeping across much of the United States. On a much grander scale, astronomers have discovered enormous "weather systems" that are millions of light-years in extent and older than the solar system.
Astronomers have announced one of the largest 3D maps of the infant universe, in a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
What is the first creature that comes to mind when you look at the dark cloud in this image?
Thanks to a rare cosmic alignment, astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from Earth.
The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to study them at length.
A Yale-led research team has discovered a galaxy that contains no dark matter -- a finding that confirms the possibility of dark matter as a separate material elsewhere in the universe.
This image from Hubble has plucked out an underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula NGC 346 that are still forming from gravitationally collapsing gas clouds.
The universe is full of mysterious exploding phenomena that go boom in the dark.
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