We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

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A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

Schmidt Sciences has announced the "Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System," an ambitious initiative comprising a privately funded space telescope and three innovative ground-based observatories.

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member Andrew Fox said in a statement. “We know from theory that most of the mass in ...

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Development of the Lazuli Space Observatory space-based telescope would be led by Schmidt Sciences, which characterizes it as ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe. Their progenitors, protoclusters, show these galaxies in their infancy, ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.