Astronomers from China's National Astronomical Observatories, Peking University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, and the Netherlands' Leiden University have found over 1,300 new quasars behind the Galactic plane by using China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), and the scientists said the results shed new light on some hot issues of cosmic research.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) in collaboration with multiple institutions have identified a runaway star that was ejected from the M15 globular cluster, providing strong evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), a long-missing link in our understanding of black hole evolution.