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For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the largest member of the Milky Way’s gang of galactic neighbors, known as the Local Group. With around a trillion suns worth of mass, Andromeda’s gravitational influence ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The cannibal next door has an even mightier appetite than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like most big galaxies, the ...

Our nearest major galactic neighbor is a cosmic cannibal. And it's heading this way eventually. Astronomers have long suspected Andromeda of being a space predator, consuming dwarf galaxies that ...

The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.