Mireia Montes

Telescope images revealed a region in a distant galaxy where billions of stars had disappeared. The void was caused by a pair of supermassive black holes whose combined mass is an absolute record. The discovery helps understand the growth of giant galaxies.

The faint light diffused throughout galaxy clusters turns out to be a precise impression of dark matter. Stars ripped from galaxies fill its gravitational scaffold like plaster into a mold. This discovery gives astronomers a direct way to study the hidden structure of the Universe, without resorting