Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

To the unaided human eye, the night sky is resplendent with over 9,000 individual points of light, but that perspective covers only a bare fraction of the universe. When you purchase through links on ...

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Astronomers have discovered the most distant supernova of its kind, an ancient and massive star explosion that could shed light on some of the universe's biggest mysteries. The supernova, known as SN ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you look out into the distant Universe, you'll encounter galaxies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The farthest type Ia supernova, our most distant "standard candle" for ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant – and therefore earliest – known black hole. Hiding in a galaxy called GN-z11, this black hole is bigger than should be possible given the age of the ...

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