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Monster galaxy from the early universe lived fast and died young
Astronomers have discovered a 12 billion-year-old galaxy, which rapidly formed stars before its early demise.
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Astronomers explain what fed hungry supermassive black holes at dawn of universe
Astronomers have long wondered what the earliest supermassive black holes fed on. Now, they have discovered 12 black hole gas buffets which could explain this mystery.
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Let there be light: Astronomers close in on signals from the very first stars
Astronomers are trying to track the time at which the very earliest stars were born and the universe lit up, using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope.
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Huge supernova unlike any discovered before illuminates deaths of earliest stars
Scientists have discovered the most massive star ever destroyed by a supernova - SN 2016iet, which occurred in a dwarf galaxy located 900 million light-years away.