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Artist's rendering of the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes: Using archival data from the Gemini North Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merger of two supermassive black holes is a long-predicted but never-observed phenomenon. This pair provides insight into why such an event seems so unlikely in the universe. Credit: NOIR LAB

Astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of black holes ever found

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Data from the Gemini North Telescope provide a possible explanation for the halting of the merger of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a galaxy
This figure illustrates how an interstellar object is rapidly approaching our solar system. Ejected from its home planet system long ago, the object traveled through interstellar space for billions of years before passing briefly in our cosmic neighborhood. The Robin Observatory will reveal many of these unknown interstellar visitors.

Visitors from distant stars: The Rubin Observatory will detect a multitude of interstellar objects moving through our solar system

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The Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will revolutionize solar system science by discovering a population of previously undiscovered interstellar comets and asteroids passing through the neighborhood
The cosmic Bat Nebula is spectacular: interstellar wings, colors, and clouds in the process of star formation.

Double Nebula: The Chameleon Nebula Imaged by the Gemini South Telescope

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Astronomers capture an image of the nebula located at the center of the Chameleon I dark cloud, one of the star-forming regions closest to the Milky Way.