James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

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Portuguese researchers predict that Europe's future space observatory will detect hundreds of thousands of supermassive black ...

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Time is relative, but some of us still don't have enough of it to fully take in the most salient aspects of such topics as dark matter, exoplanets, the Big Bang, and why so many objects in outer space ...

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Eminent astronomer and former director of IUCAA Prof Naresh Dadhich passed away in Beijing, China, following a heart attack ...

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