JWST reveals how a supermassive black hole keeps feeding itself
Supermassive black holes can heat the gas around them so fiercely that their own food supply should disappear.…
It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What are these little red dots?
To figure out what the little red dots might be, if not simply really big galaxies, scientists turned…
James Webb Space Telescope Spots Six Galaxies Merging Into One 12 Billion Years Ago
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught six massive galaxies in the act of colliding and merging into…
223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture
‘Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary…
Famous Pink Planet Harbors A Salty Surprise
GJ504b – Grok via astrobiology.com Northwestern University-led astronomers have discovered salty skies surrounding the universe’s famous “Pink Planet.”…
JWST finds rare planet with different atmospheric conditions at dawn and dusk
WASP-121 b is split between extremes. One side faces its star nonstop and burns at about 2,770 Kelvin.…
Galaxy-killing wind may explain why giant galaxies died so early
A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While it churns out…
James Webb Space Telescope Looks Behind The Orion Nebula
While the constellation Orion is familiar to stargazers, James Webb Space Telescope looked further to find large clouds…
Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge
Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
Astronomers Observe Exoplanet Atmospheres With New Cloud-detecting Method
Artistic representation of WASP-94 A b. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet,…
Coupled Photochemical-Climate Modeling of Plausible Tenuous Outgassed Atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Surface pressure-temperature (P-T) points for each atmosphere in our work for each planet. Points are shown plotted over…
A dead galaxy from the early universe is forcing astronomers to rethink galactic evolution
Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds,…