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Researchers at the University of Würzburg utilized plasma simulations to explain why the supermassive black hole jets in the nearby active galaxy Centaurus A appear brighter at their edges than at their centers.
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New research led by the Southwest Research Institute suggests that atmospheric argon-40 measurements on Uranus and Neptune reveal more about the planets' formation environments than their rocky or icy interiors.
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