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Webb’s New Image Reveals a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation

When a spiral galaxy presents itself just right, observations reveal more detail. That’s the case with NGC 7469,...

A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole. It Didn’t End Well

Black holes are confounding objects that stretch physics to its limits. The most massive ones lurk in the...

A Black Hole Consumed a Star and Released the Light of a Trillion Suns

When a flash of light appears somewhere in the sky, astronomers notice. When it appears in a region...

The Second-Closest Supermassive Black Hole Might be in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy

There’s a little galaxy in the Milky Way’s cosmic neighborhood called Leo 1. It’s a dwarf spheroidal that...

When Black Holes Collide They Also Produce Neutrinos

Ever since astronomers first detected ultra high energy neutrinos coming from random directions in space, they have not been...

Did Supermassive Black Holes Collapse Directly out of Giant Clouds of gas? It Could Depend on Magnetic Fields

Roughly half a century ago, astronomers realized that the powerful radio source coming from the center of our galaxy...

The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt

On the morning of October 9, astronomers’ inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA’s Swift Observatory had just...

A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy

It’s been a banner time for black hole research! In recent months, astrophysicists have announced the discovery of the...

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