James Webb telescope spots 2 monstrous black holes merging at the dawn of time, challenging our understanding of the universe

Astronomers have used James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to find the most distant pair of colliding black holes in the known universe. The cosmic monsters - each estimated to be…

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NASA experts worry billionaire space tourist will accidentally break Hubble telescope while trying to fix it

It's been 15 years since NASA's groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope was last manned by astronauts.And the aging observatory, which has been orbiting our planet in low Earth orbit since 1990,…

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Is the main competing theory of dark matter dead? There is bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests

This article was originally published on The conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Indranil Banik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics at the…

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