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Submit ArticleThis is How Supermassive Black Holes Feed Themselves
Astronomers may have found the missing link in the SMBH feeding process. New observations with the JWST show that a galaxy's circumnuclear disk, ...
Source: Universe Today
NASA’s Proposed EVE Mission Aims to Solve the Radius Valley Mystery
A debate has been raging amongst planetary scientists for over a decade - why are there so few exoplanets with a radius of about 1.8 times that of the...
Source: Universe Today
Swirling spiral galaxy will hypnotize you | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2026
A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the Messier 88 (M88) galaxy, also known as NGC 4501, in all of its swirling glory.
Source: Space.com
NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’
The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a...
Source: NASA
Meet Callisto, Jupiter's Ancient Moon
Meet Callisto, the heavily cratered moon that's the most distant of the Galilean satellites from Jupiter. The post Meet Callisto, Jupiter...
Source: Sky & Telescope
NASA is building a new space telescope to search for life on nearby planets. What would it see on ancient Earth?
A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancie...
Source: Space.com
Reading the Moon in X-rays
We've walked on the Moon, driven rovers across its surface, and analysed every gram of rock the Apollo astronauts brought home, yet we still don&...
Source: Universe Today
Strange 'spacetime crystals' could give birth to tiny black holes
Using just a pen and paper, a team of scientists has calculated how space and time could crystallize to form tiny black holes.
Source: Space.com
Orbiting Stars Give Clues to a Quiescent Black Hole's Mass
How do you measure the mass of a dormant black hole in the early Universe? That's a question astronomers at University College London (UCL) and C...
Source: Universe Today
These record-breaking black hole winds could create a category 79 hurricane on Earth
Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar powered by a feeding supermassive black hole blasting out winds at record-breaking speeds for such an out...
Source: Space.com
V. Alan Hale (1958-2026)
Astronomer and comet-hunter Alan Hale passed away on Saturday, June 6th, at 67 years old in his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The post V. Alan Hale...
Source: Sky & Telescope
Magnetic Fields Help Binary Stars Form and Black Holes Merge
New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary protostars. These results ...
Source: Universe Today
Amazon's Satellites Are Impacting Astronomy
The satellites being launched by Amazon are brighter than IAU-recommended limits — which means they'll interfere with astronomy. The post Amazon...
Source: Sky & Telescope
Upcoming telescopes could shed light on dark matter – astronomers are looking for these ‘fingerprints’ of the elusive substance
Scientists study small galaxies to look for hints of dark matter in the universe.
Source: The Conversation Africa
James Webb Space Telescope weighs 'sleeping giant' black hole from 10 billion light-years away — and it's 6 billion times our sun's mass
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have "weighed" a sleeping giant, a dormant supermass...
Source: Space.com
Catch Comet 220P McNaught in Outburst
We witnessed a surprise outburst late last week, from a lesser known periodic comet. Posts flashed across message boards late last week, alerting come...
Source: Universe Today
Space Telescopes Are Now Overwhelmed by Satellite Trails
Unfortunately there’s more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv from researchers at NASA’s Ames R...
Source: Universe Today
Gravitational-Wave Detections Surge with Latest Release
Astronomers have released the newest list of gravitational-wave detections, almost doubling the number of known signals from colliding black holes. T...
Source: Sky & Telescope
The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left it about 280 million y...
Source: Space Daily
NASA interested in Hubble reboost if costs can be reduced
As NASA prepares an attempt to reboost an astronomy spacecraft in a decaying orbit, it is open to doing something similar for Hubble, if its operating...
Source: SpaceNews