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Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.

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NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

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