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AI Flagged a Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star

The discovery validates an AI method for spotting off‑center tidal disruption events and points to many more such finds as wide surveys and space telescopes scale up.

Chandra Sees Unexpected X‑Ray Flickering From Supernova Remnants in M83

Astronomers Find Hot Wind Carving Cone from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

DECam Image Reveals Sombrero Galaxy’s Giant Halo and Stellar Stream

New COLIBRE Simulations Recreate Galaxy Growth and Support the Standard Model

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

Dark Matter Core Model Challenges Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center

JWST and ALMA Reveal Early Massive Galaxy Quenched by Black Hole Starvation

Scientists Detect Largest Known Rotating Filament in the Cosmic Web

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

Astronomers Capture First Direct Evidence of Quasar Radiation Disrupting Neighboring Galaxy