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Study Proposes Dark Matter Could Turn Some Gas Giants Into Planet-Mass Black Holes

A peer-reviewed model points to superheavy, non-annihilating particles as the trigger.

Black Hole-Star Encounter Likely Sparked Rare Double-Peaked Supernova

Black Hole–Star Encounter Likely Spawned SN 2023zkd, Study Finds

VLBA Unveils Toroidal Magnetic Field in Neutrino-Bright Blazar Jet

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

Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Localized to Dwarf Galaxy at z=2.148

Rare Jet-Driven Bubble Warps Protoplanetary Disk in WSB 52

Hubble UV Reveals Ultra-Massive White Dwarf as Stellar Merger Remnant

Framework for Lava Planet Evolution Secures 100 Hours of JWST Time

JWST to Target Triple Black Hole in Ringed Infinity Galaxy

LVK Confirms Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger

Infinity Galaxy’s Newborn Black Hole Shows Evidence of Direct Collapse

Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger Challenges Formation Models

Record 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger Confirmed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Network

NASA Releases Closest-Ever Images of the Sun From Parker Solar Probe

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Unveils Record 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole from Mass-Gap Merger

Researchers Prepare Infrared Search for Dark Dwarfs at Galactic Center

Researchers Estimate 3I/ATLAS Interstellar Comet Is Over Seven Billion Years Old

Durham Team Predicts Up to 100 Hidden Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

New 'Dark Dwarfs' Theory Proposes Substellar Objects Fueled by Dark Matter