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

Deep ALMA maps paired with Chandra X-ray images show a steady low-power outflow that clears cold gas, altering nearby star formation.

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Astronomers Measure Cygnus X-1’s ‘Dancing’ Black Hole Jets at 10,000 Suns of Power

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

NASA’s SPHEREx Releases First Full-Sky Infrared Map in 102 Colors

XRISM Finds Dense but Slow Neutron-Star Wind, Challenging Simple Outflow Models

Webb Reveals Binary Interaction in Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 and Detects 2,500 Early Galaxies

Axion-Based Dark Energy Model Foresees Big Crunch in 33 Billion Years

Astronomers Reveal Extreme Nuclear Transients as Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions