NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. To learn more about the Roman mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/roman Media contact: Claire AndreoliNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.claire.andreoli@nasa.gov301-286-1940
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A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead “dark stars” that served as the seeds of the first supermassive black holes.
A jet erupting from a distant supermassive black hole-powered blazar is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter, and that could tell us about the source of cosmic “ghost” particles.
A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive black holes.
That’s three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy.
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