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Record Black Hole Flare Shone With the Light of 10 Trillion Suns From 10 Billion Light-Years Away

Researchers attribute the outburst to a tidal disruption of an unusually massive star, offering a rare probe of black hole feeding in the early universe.

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ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

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Webb Unveils Red Spider Nebula’s Closed Lobes, Iron‑Traced Jet, and Shrouded Core

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Orionids Peak Under New-Moon Skies Tonight

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Comet Lemmon Makes Closest Approach Oct. 20–21 With Prime Viewing Under New Moon

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Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Oct. 21–23 Under New-Moon Skies

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First Radio Image Resolves Two Supermassive Black Holes in Quasar OJ287

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2mo ago

Citizen Scientists Find Most Distant, Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle With Twin Rings

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2mo ago

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Makes Closest Pass to Mars as Spacecraft Observe

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2mo ago

Webb Unveils Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s Largest Star-Forming Cloud, in Unprecedented Detail

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2mo ago

New X-Ray–Radio Composite of the ‘Cosmic Hand’ Exposes Odd Mismatches in Pulsar Nebula

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3mo ago

Spacecraft Observations Sought as Loeb Raises Nuclear-Powered Theory for Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

Cosmic Phenomena

Record Black Hole Flare Shone With the Light of 10 Trillion Suns From 10 Billion Light-Years Away

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

Webb Unveils Red Spider Nebula’s Closed Lobes, Iron‑Traced Jet, and Shrouded Core

Orionids Peak Under New-Moon Skies Tonight

Comet Lemmon Makes Closest Approach Oct. 20–21 With Prime Viewing Under New Moon

Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Oct. 21–23 Under New-Moon Skies

First Radio Image Resolves Two Supermassive Black Holes in Quasar OJ287

Citizen Scientists Find Most Distant, Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle With Twin Rings

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Makes Closest Pass to Mars as Spacecraft Observe

Webb Unveils Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s Largest Star-Forming Cloud, in Unprecedented Detail

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NASA and NOAA Launch Trio of Sun–Earth Missions Toward L1 on SpaceX Falcon 9

Chandra Spots Early-Universe Black Hole Growing Above Theoretical Limit

ESA Releases Gaia-Based 3D Map of Local Milky Way Star-Forming Regions

Day-Long, Repeating Gamma-Ray Burst Outside Milky Way Defies Existing Models

Webb Reveals Pismis 24’s Turbulent Stellar Nursery in Striking NIRCam Image

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

SpaceX Sunset Launch May Create Twilight Effect Over Disneyland Tonight

Brightest Fast Radio Burst Traced to 13-Parsec Region in Galaxy NGC 4141

New X-Ray–Radio Composite of the ‘Cosmic Hand’ Exposes Odd Mismatches in Pulsar Nebula

Spacecraft Observations Sought as Loeb Raises Nuclear-Powered Theory for Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

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