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11/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

What happens when galaxies collide? NASA studies the small, dense corpses left after a stellar explosion

Long after we are gone, our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into the Andromeda Galaxy, forever changing the faces of both galaxies. Today, NASA researchers are studying the aftermath of a similar galactic collision to help predict what is going to happen to our galaxy in that distant future, an article in LiveScience stated. The […]

08/30/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Astrophysicist claims that aliens are racing against dark energy, capturing stars from other galaxies, reeling them in, and harvesting their resources

If there are any advanced aliens out there, proposed a recently-published paper by an American researcher, they would be racing against the constant expansion of the universe that is caused by dark matter. An article in Live Science described how these aliens would go so far as to stealing stars from other galaxies before those […]

08/15/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Giant black hole blasted out a jet of particles at 125 billion times the amount of energy the sun releases per year, confirms new study

For the first time ever, European astronomers recorded a torrent of energy many billions of times more powerful than the annual output of our Sun in a distant galaxy. The source of this monstrous blast was a star getting eaten by a supermassive black hole, an article on Space.com reported. Thanks to this discovery, the researchers will […]

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