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Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early Universe

June 15, 2026

For several years, astronomers have been puzzling over a peculiar population of objects discovered by the NASA/ESA/CSA James…

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This composite image contains X-rays from Chandra and XMM-Newton missions (shown in blue) as well as radio data from the MeerKAT telescope (shown in red) in South Africa. These have been combined with an optical image from the Pan-STARRS telescopes in Hawai’i (red, green, and blue). Image credit: NASA / CXC / UCLA / Zhu et al. / ESA / XMM-Newton / PanSTARRS / MeerKAT / CSA / STScI / SAO / L. Frattare & P. Edmonds.

June 13, 2026

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers identified a possible remnant of ancient stellar explosion…

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Hubble photographs spiral galaxy with black hole 100 million times the sun's mass

June 11, 2026

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) A…

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Astronomers Finally Find Milky Way’s Missing Black Hole Wind

June 9, 2026

After a 50-year search, astronomers have uncovered evidence that Sagittarius A* — the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole that resides…

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This Webb image shows the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb.

June 6, 2026

A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…

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Scientists Say Supermassive Black Holes Could Be Surrounded by Millions of Planets

June 4, 2026

Artist’s rendition of a supermassive black hole. Credit: WikiMedia Commons At the center of most large galaxies sits…

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This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the spiral galaxy Messier 88. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker / MAUVE-HST Team.

June 2, 2026

A newly-released Hubble image shows Messier 88, a black hole-powered spiral galaxy that is gradually plunging toward the…

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Radio signal from the quasar TXS 2005+403 travels roughly 10 billion light-years to reach Earth, traversing the Cygnus region, one of the most turbulent and scattering environments in the Milky Way Galaxy. On the left, this artist’s conception shows the quasar as it truly appears, with a bright accretion disk and jets blasting into the Galaxy like a beacon through the darkness. On the right, we see how turbulent gas distorts scientists’ view of the quasar in much the same way heat haze from a fire warps our view of the objects behind it. Image credit: Melissa Weiss / CfA.

May 15, 2026

For the first time, astronomers have directly detected how turbulent clouds of ionized gas between the stars bend…

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$This image of Messier 77 from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) highlights its swirling spiral arms, the dust in its disk and its piercingly bright core like never before. The bright orange lines appearing to radiate out from the galaxy’s center are not actually a feature of the galaxy: they are a type of distortion that arises from the optical design of the telescope. Called diffraction spikes, they are created because the intense light from the unresolved AGN is bent (diffracted) very slightly at the edges of Webb’s hexagonal mirror panels and around one of the struts that hold up its secondary mirror. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / A. Leroy.$

May 13, 2026

New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 as a…

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NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye

May 9, 2026

There’s a fresh twist in the mystery of the “little red dots.” Astronomers say they’ve found a new specimen,…

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Aggarwal et al. show that the energy released from dark matter decay could alter the chemistry of early galaxies enough to cause some of them to directly collapse into black holes rather than forming stars. Image credit: Aggarwal et al., doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2026/04/034.

April 30, 2026

New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of…

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Black Holes from Before Big Bang Could Still Exist Today as ‘Cosmic Fossils’

April 21, 2026

New research by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in…

Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early Universe

Astronomers May Have Found Supernova Remnant near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Hubble photographs spiral galaxy with black hole 100 million times the sun’s mass

Astronomers Finally Find Milky Way’s Missing Black Hole Wind

Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found

Scientists Say Supermassive Black Holes Could Be Surrounded by Millions of Planets

Hubble Captures Active Spiral Galaxy: Messier 88

Astronomers Catch Interstellar Turbulence Warping Light across Milky Way

Webb Peers into Brilliant Heart of Messier 77

NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye

Dark Matter May Have Jump-Started Universe’s First Giant Black Holes

Black Holes from Before Big Bang Could Still Exist Today as ‘Cosmic Fossils’