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Where Are All the Intermediate Mass Black Holes? Microlensing Fast Radio Bursts Might Reveal Them
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Where Are All the Intermediate Mass Black Holes? Microlensing Fast Radio Bursts Might Reveal Them

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In the heirarchy of black holes, intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) lie in between stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes. But the problem is that we've never found one. There have been hints, but nothing conclusive.…

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Astronomers Observe the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in the Early Universe
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Astronomers Observe the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in the Early Universe

An international team led by Associate Professor Kimihiko Nakajima of Kanazawa University has captured a rare look at the early universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the power of gravitational lensing, the team achieved a definitive…

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Why the Second Full Moon of May is a ‘Blue Minimoon’
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Why the Second Full Moon of May is a ‘Blue Minimoon’

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There’s nothing like a random celestial coincidence, turned good internet meme. In this case, the chance event is this weekend’s Full Moon, which also happens to be the second Full Moon of May, and is also the most distant and visually smallest Full Moon…

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Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
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Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.

In December 2019, astronomers detected a one hour brightening of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a classic gravitational microlensing event. These occur when a compact object bends a distant the light of a distant star as it passes in front of it.…

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Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs
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Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs

Open star clusters are prevalent stellar structures in the Milky Way. Astronomers think their could be 100,000 of them. But they're not all the same: some are binary clusters, and within those, there's a hierarchy based on how they form.…

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The Name N159 Doesn't Do This Brilliant Star-Forming Region Justice
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The Name N159 Doesn't Do This Brilliant Star-Forming Region Justice

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This ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week captures all the glory of the star-forming region N159. It's in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and is dwarfed by its much larger neighbour, the Tarantula Nebula.…

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