The Soul Nebula, with a star-forming "tadpole" in the upper center left. What it is: The Soul Nebula (also called Westerhout 5 or IC 1848) and a star-forming bubble within it When it was taken: Sept.

An enormous, deformed dust cloud that astronomers nicknamed "the Tadpole" could point to the location of an extremely rare type of black hole never confirmed to exist in our galaxy before. In a study ...

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Artist’s Impression of the “Tadpole” Molecular Cloud and the black hole at the gravitational center of its orbit. CREDIT Keio University A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole due to its shape ...

Did anyone else see the rocket launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base? Here was the view from our office! pic.twitter.com/EPWazmyOnr— NWS Las Vegas (@NWSVegas) June ...

A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole due to its shape, appears to be revolving around a space devoid of any bright objects. This suggests that the Tadpole is orbiting a dark object, most ...

Scientists detected a cloud of gas sculpted into a wonky tadpole shape near the Milky Way's center, possibly pointing to a rare intermediate-mass black hole. When you purchase through links on our ...