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New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
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First Utterly Alone Black Hole Confirmed Roaming The Cosmos
A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...
Hours-long continuous lasing achieved using laser-cooled strontium atoms
Laser-cooled atomic gases, gases of atoms chilled to temperatures around absolute zero using laser technologies, have proved ...
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New research challenges black holes as dark matter explanation
A team of scientists from the OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) survey from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw have announced the results of nearly 20-year-long ...
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Scientists find first black hole roaming alone in space
A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...
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Meet The Millinovae: A New Mysterious Class Of Cosmic X-Ray Events
Using 20 years’ worth of data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), the team was able to find objects ...