Meet the Gigamaser—the Brightest Microwave Laser Ever Spotted in Deep Space
Space is full of odd light sources astronomers don’t quite understand, like double supernovas, weird blue flashes, random…
Our leading theory of dark matter may be wrong, massive gravity study hints
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Mind-Bending ‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Ultrabright Supernova From an Unthinkable Distance
The supernova SN 2025wny is hopelessly far, lying approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth. Normally, this would make…
Unprecedented ‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Fifth Ghost Image and a Dark Matter Surprise
When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a rare glimpse…
Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near…