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A major report outlining the highest priorities and recommendations for U.S. astronomy has finally been released, revealing the shape of things to come

Scientists analyzed data obtained by NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt and their results were rather surprising – there are a lot fewer galaxies in the universe than previously thought. It was previously stated that there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the universe but new research has revealed that there... Read more »

In the past few decades, it has become part of astronomical lore that at the center of every galaxy lurks a giant black hole into which the equivalent of millions or even billions of suns have disappeared.

The universe may be a little darker after a recent discovery has shown that there could be fewer galaxies populating it.

How Many Galaxies Are in the Universe? A New Answer From the Darkest Sky Ever Observed 3,650 Ordinarily, we point telescopes at some object we want to see in greater detail. In the 1990s astronomers did the opposite. They pointed the most powerful telescope in history, the Hubble Space Telescope, at a dark patch of sky devoid of known stars, gas, or galaxies. But in that sliver of nothingness, Hubble revealed a breathtaking sight: The void was brimming with galaxies. Astronomers have long wondered how many galaxies there are in the universe, but until Hubble, the galaxies we could observe wer...