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2w ago

JWST Weighs Dormant Six‑Billion‑Sun Black Hole 10 Billion Light‑Years Away

The result uses JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy plus roughly 30× gravitational lensing magnification to extend stellar-dynamical mass measurements to early cosmic times and enable survey and Extremely Large Telescope follow-up.

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3w ago

Astronomers Measure Cygnus X-1’s ‘Dancing’ Black Hole Jets at 10,000 Suns of Power

3 ARTICLES

2mo ago

Study Links Self-Interacting Dark Matter Clumps to Three Cosmic Puzzles

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2mo ago

JWST Studies Report Strongest Evidence Yet of Population III Stars Near GN‑z11

9 ARTICLES

3mo ago

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

3 ARTICLES

3mo ago

Candidate Ultra-Faint Galaxy in Perseus Appears 99% Dark Matter

6 ARTICLES

4mo ago

Hubble, Euclid and Subaru Reveal Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Dominated by Dark Matter

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4mo ago

JWST Spots Most Distant ‘Jellyfish’ Galaxy Candidate at Redshift 1.156

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5mo ago

DES Year 6 Delivers Precise 3×2pt Cosmology With Mild CMB Discrepancy

8 ARTICLES

5mo ago

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

5 ARTICLES

5mo ago

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

8 ARTICLES

5mo ago

JWST and ALMA Reveal Early Massive Galaxy Quenched by Black Hole Starvation

4 ARTICLES

5mo ago

Hubble Confirms Starless ‘Cloud-9’ as Dark-Matter RELHIC as Lensing Reveals a Distant Dark Disruptor

Galaxy Formation

JWST Weighs Dormant Six‑Billion‑Sun Black Hole 10 Billion Light‑Years Away

JWST Measures 50‑Million‑Solar‑Mass Black Hole That Outweighs Its Host

Ancient Metal-Poor Stars Found Inside Milky Way’s Disk

JWST Finds Ultra-Faint Galaxy Showing Chemical Traces of the First Stars

James Webb Maps the Universe’s Cosmic Web in Record Detail

JWST Finds Early Massive Galaxy That Isn't Rotating

Webb and Hubble Show Massive Star Clusters Shed Birth Clouds Sooner

Webb Reveals Non-Rotating Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe

Astronomers Measure Cygnus X-1’s ‘Dancing’ Black Hole Jets at 10,000 Suns of Power

Study Links Self-Interacting Dark Matter Clumps to Three Cosmic Puzzles

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Galaxy Formation

JWST Studies Report Strongest Evidence Yet of Population III Stars Near GN‑z11

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

Candidate Ultra-Faint Galaxy in Perseus Appears 99% Dark Matter

Hubble, Euclid and Subaru Reveal Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Dominated by Dark Matter

JWST Spots Most Distant ‘Jellyfish’ Galaxy Candidate at Redshift 1.156

DES Year 6 Delivers Precise 3×2pt Cosmology With Mild CMB Discrepancy

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

JWST and ALMA Reveal Early Massive Galaxy Quenched by Black Hole Starvation

Hubble Confirms Starless ‘Cloud-9’ as Dark-Matter RELHIC as Lensing Reveals a Distant Dark Disruptor

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Galaxy Formation