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New insight found in black hole collisions Posted: 26 Feb 2015 08:04 AM PST New research by an astrophysicist provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe -- the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger black hole.

MUSE goes beyond Hubble: Looking deeply into the universe in 3-D Posted: 26 Feb 2015 05:49 AM PST The MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep universe. After staring at the Hubble Deep Field South region for only 27 hours, the new observations reveal the distances, motions and other properties of far more galaxies than ever before in this tiny piece of the sky. They also go beyond Hubble and reveal previously invisible objects.

Pockets of calm protect molecules around a supermassive black hole Posted: 26 Feb 2015 05:44 AM PST Researchers have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1068, also known to amateur stargazers as M77.