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Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

New Astrophysical Journal results tie the years-late brightening to a likely relativistic jet that challenges standard tidal-disruption models.

Mars’ Gravity Helps Drive Earth’s Ice‑Age Cycles, New Simulations Show

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Study Reports First Clear Evidence of Black Hole Frame-Dragging

NIST Finds Mars Clocks Run 477 Microseconds Faster Per Earth Day

Record Black Hole Flare Points to Tidal Disruption of a Giant Star

Study Hints at 'Planet Y' in Outer Solar System After Kuiper Belt Warp Detected

Dual Lensing-Kinematics Study Confirms 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in Cosmic Horseshoe

Study Finds 2% Chance of Milky Way–Andromeda Collision in 5 Billion Years