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An international team of astronomers using archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered when the universe was only 750 million years old. It had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky. The object, which is referred to as GNz7q, is the red dot in the center of the image of the Hubble Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North).

Hubble sheds light on origins of supermassive black holes

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Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space

Hubble probes ultra-hot Jupiters

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Categories Space

Hubble spots farthest star ever seen

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Categories Space, Technology

NASA researcher finding ways to turn down the heat in cities

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

Puffy planets lose atmospheres, become super-Earths

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Categories Space
A pullout of the central region of dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 traces an outflow, or bridge of hot gas 230 light-years long, connecting the galaxy's massive black hole and a star-forming region. Hubble data on the velocity of the outflow from the black hole, as well as the age of the young stars, indicates a causal relationship between the two. A few million years ago, the outflow of hot gas slammed into the dense cloud of a stellar nursery and spread out, like water from a hose impacting a mound of dirt. Now clusters of young stars are aligned perpendicular to the outflow, revealing the path of its spread.

Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy

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Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space
An optical/near-infrared image of the sky around the TESS Input Catalog (TIC) object TIC 400799224 (the crosshair marks the location of the object, and the width of the field of view is given in arcminutes). Astronomers have concluded that the mysterious periodic variations in the light from this object are caused by an orbiting body that periodically emits clouds of dust that occult the star.

TESS spots baffling body, and it’s dusty

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Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space

Evidence of persistent water vapor on Europa

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Categories Space

NASA Robots Compete in DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge Final

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Categories Technology

Hubble Captures a Sparkling Cluster

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Categories Space

23rd SpaceX commercial resupply mission launches bone, plant, and materials studies to International Space Station

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Categories Space

NASA model describes nearby star which resembles ours in its youth

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Categories Space
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