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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for small black holes left over from the Big Bang

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Black Hole Week is in full swing and to celebrate, NASA has explained how its next big astronomical instrument, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will hunt for small black holes dating back to the Big Bang. When we think of black holes, we tend to imagine enormous cosmic monsters, such as stellar-mass black holes … Read more

Are holes in the Andromeda galaxy filled with dark matter? This NASA telescope could find out

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Images taken by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could allow scientists to search for dark matter among stars. An international team of researchers believes that gaps in strings of stars hanging from tightly packed spheres of old stellar bodies, called globular clusters, could be influenced by clumps of dark matter. Until now, astronomers … Read more