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DESI Unveils Final Five-Year 3D Map of the Universe

The release sets up fresh tests of whether dark energy changes over time.

Hubble Maps 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula

Eccentric Orbit Confirmed in Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger GW200105

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

Hubble Confirms Starless ‘Cloud-9’ as Dark-Matter RELHIC as Lensing Reveals a Distant Dark Disruptor

Astronomers Map 50-Million–Light-Year Rotating Cosmic Filament Nearby

Euclid Data Maps a Cooling Universe as Star Formation Declines

JPL Confirms Non-Gravitational Acceleration in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

JWST Study Proposes ‘Black Hole Stars’ to Explain Mysterious Early‑Universe Red Dots

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

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

New Models Identify Webb’s Little Red Dots as Primordial Supermassive Stars

LHCb Detects Charge-Parity Violation in Baryon Decays for First Time

Astronomers Capture First Evidence of Quasar Radiation Halting Star Formation in Galaxy Collision

Scientists Unveil First Molecular Cloud Detected via Far-Ultraviolet Light

Astronomers Unveil Eos, a Massive Hidden Molecular Cloud Near Earth

Saturn’s Rings May Be as Old as the Planet, Study Suggests

Early Universe Galaxies Less Massive Than Initially Thought, New Study Reveals