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James Webb telescope discovers a surprise around our galaxy's black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that gas near our galaxy's center is surprisingly rich in heavy elements.
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Shredded star reveals a massive black hole wandering far from its galaxy's center
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An invisible jet of radioactive goo is heading for Earth
Astronomers identify a black hole system firing a plasma jet directly toward Earth, according to recent science reporting.
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Physicists Built a Black Hole in a Lab. Then It Swallowed Sound.
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The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They're One of Astronomy's Biggest Discoveries in Decades
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mysterious tiny red dots across the universe, sparking major astronomical discoveries.
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Astronomers discover the 1st black hole powered 'microquasar' in the Milky Way
Astronomers discover the first black hole powered microquasar in the Milky Way galaxy, bringing a powerful cosmic jet directly toward Earth.
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Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy
Astronomers have identified the first microblazar in the Milky Way, a black hole directing a high-energy jet of particles directly toward Earth.
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A famous galaxy's black hole has been hiding its most violent behavior
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Astronomers had only 116 observations of the jet erupting from blazar 3C 345 across 27 years. An AI system turned them into the highest-resolution continuous reconstruction yet—and revealed features appearing to travel 10–13 times faster than light.
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For years, mysterious little red dots kept appearing in James Webb images of the early universe — astronomers now think one is a “black hole star,” a growing black hole hidden inside a star-like gas cocoon the size of the solar system
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a 'black hole star,' potentially explaining mysterious red dots in the early universe.
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A newly found star circles the Milky Way's central black hole every 8.7 years and passes it at about 25,000 kilometres a second, more than 8 percent of the speed of light, and the pass is so close that its discoverers say there is a fair chance of measuri
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Fastest star yet seen orbits black hole at 8% speed of light
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This Star Whips Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole Faster and Closer Than Any Other Known Star
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Why scientists are stoked about mysterious black hole stars : Short Wave
JWST detects an early universe object hiding a growing black hole inside a dense hydrogen cocoon.
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James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns' worth of energy — because hidden inside its star-like cocoon is an accreting black hole, rather than a
James Webb detects an ancient, highly energetic object powered by a hidden black hole.
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Webb reveals oxygen-rich dust and water surviving near Milky Way's central black hole
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NASA captures rare phenomenon of a black hole 'devouring' a star
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'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory
Physicists have engineered a black hole made of light to test and update Stephen Hawking's theories on radiation and black hole mechanisms.
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Hubble discovers first of star cluster's missing black holes
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected the first of thousands of missing black holes within the ancient Omega Centauri star cluster.
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A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe
A rare, long-lasting radio outburst from a nearby black hole is providing astronomers with a glimpse into the properties of the early universe.
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GW250114 reveals signatures of post-merger black-hole horizon
Astronomers have detected the first fingerprints of a black hole's event horizon following a merger event known as GW250114.