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Can stars form around black holes?

In the 1930s, physicist and engineer Karl Jansky detected a continuous source of radio waves when he pointed his radio antenna at the center of our galaxy. After some analysis, scientists realized that these radio waves were emitted by something much farther away than our planet. Sun – but oddly enough, they were comparable in… Read More »

Scientists have found a planet-forming disk beyond the Milky Way for the first time – yes, they’re very excited

Astronomers have discovered the first example of a rotating disk of material feeding a young star in a galaxy outside the Milky Way. The disk is nearly identical to those found around baby stars in the Milky Way and shows that stars and planets form in other galaxies just as they do in our own.… Read More »