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# space
Some of the largest galaxies in the cosmos aren’t creating new stars. Now scientists finally think they know why.
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Early galaxies seem to grow a lot faster than they should. We finally know how.
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How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
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The survey which figured out the right way to view the remaining visible universe has been misconstrued to mean we no longer need to investigate dark matter.
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We can't see a black hole directly, even a supermassive one. But we can see where they are by tracking the orbits of the objects around them...
# science
A new paper suggests that mass extinctions happen in cycles based on Earth's movement through the galactic plane. But does the evidence really add up?