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Cygnus X-1’s ‘Dancing’ Black Hole Jets Clocked at Half Light-Speed With Power of 10,000 Suns

Wind-bent jets provide the first direct read on black-hole efficiency that grounds models of how galaxies grow.

New COLIBRE Simulations Recreate Galaxy Growth and Support the Standard Model

Study Points to Tight Supermassive Black Hole Binary in Markarian 501

Rubin Observatory Unveils 11,000 Newly Discovered Asteroids

JWST Finds Metal-Poor Atmosphere on Giant Planet Around a Small Red Dwarf

XRISM Confirms White Dwarf Powers Gamma Cassiopeiae’s Extreme X-Rays

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

Astronomers Publish Evidence of Planetary Collision Around Sun-Like Star

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

Nature Study Links Superluminous Supernova to Newborn Magnetar Through Relativistic 'Chirp'

Superluminous Supernova’s ‘Chirp’ Tied to Tilted Magnetar and Frame-Dragging

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

ALMA Maps Show Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Exceptionally Methanol-Rich

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

ESO/ALMA Unveil Largest, Sharpest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

Distant Quasar Defies Models With 13× Eddington Growth and Powerful Jets

Andromeda Star Vanishes Without a Supernova as Study Identifies Likely Black-Hole Birth

Astronomers Trace Andromeda Star's Quiet Collapse Into a Black Hole

Science Study Details Andromeda Star’s Disappearance, Pointing to Black Hole Birth