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V Sagittae’s Extreme Accretion Signals Likely Near-Term Nova, VLT Study Finds

New spectroscopy resolves a century-old brightness mystery by revealing a circumbinary gas ring created by mass the white dwarf fails to absorb.

JWST Spots Unusually Compact Early-Universe Black Hole That May Predate Its Galaxy

Webb Traces Planet-Building Dust from Butterfly Nebula to ‘Butterfly Star’ Disk

Astronomers Directly Image Newborn Planet in Multi-Ringed Disk in First Clear Case

Astronomers Identify Ultra-Stripped Supernova, Propose New ‘Type Ien’

CHIME Outriggers Pinpoint Record-Bright Fast Radio Burst to Nearby Spiral Galaxy

Study Proposes Dark Matter Could Spawn Planet-Devouring Black Holes Inside Gas Giants

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