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A supermassive black hole sitting at the center of a galaxy just 700 million years after the big bang appears to have been in ...

A newly confirmed dwarf galaxy orbiting Andromeda contains so few stars that automated detection pipelines ignored it entirely — and that invisibility may be precisely what makes it scientifically ...

Euclid has uncovered 31 ancient quasars, including two record-breakers that push deeper into cosmic history and illuminate ...

Galaxy photometric redshifts play an important role in cosmology and in studies of the cosmic large-scale structure. Next-generation surveys will produce tens of billions of observations, creating a ...

ESA's Euclid telescope identified 12 quasars from the universe's first 770 million years — more than the previous decade of ...

Abstract: We propose uncalibrated photometric stereo methods that address the problem due to unknown isotropic reflectance. At the core of our methods is the notion of “constrained half-vector ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a method for accurately estimating the shape of an object by integrating the surface orientation measured by photometric stereo and the position measured by some ...