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Webb’s Interferometric Image Reveals Dusty Torus Feeding Circinus Galaxy’s Black Hole

The result addresses a decades‑old infrared excess puzzle by tracing the core’s glow to hot dust in the torus rather than outflows.

Closest Directly Imaged Planet Around Two Suns Confirmed on a 300-Year Orbit

EHT Finds Magnetic Field Flip at M87* and Traces Jet Base in Multi‑Year Study

Day-Long, Repeating Gamma-Ray Burst From Distant Galaxy Challenges Standard Models

Brightest Fast Radio Burst Precisely Located in Nearby Galaxy Using CHIME Outriggers

Webb Uncovers Provisional Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Alpha Centauri A’s Habitable Zone

IXPE Detects Unexpectedly High X-Ray Polarization From Heartbeat Black Hole

Astronomers Reveal Universe’s Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Record 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Titan

Trapped Jets in Massive Stars Revealed as Source of Fast X-Ray Transients

Record-Breaking Radio Halo Encircles Turbulent Galaxy Cluster