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Nearby Cosmic Web Filament Found Rotating Across 50 Million Light-Years

A peer-reviewed analysis using MeerKAT plus DESI/SDSS finds a dynamically cold, gas-rich filament whose motion informs theories of galaxy spin.

Seven-Hour Burst and 13-Billion-Year-Old Supernova Reshape Gamma-Ray Astronomy

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

JWST Reveals 'Alaknanda,' a Milky Way–Like Spiral 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang

Global Radio Array Detects Smallest Gravitational-Lensing Object Yet, Weighing About a Million Suns

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

New Peer-Reviewed Model Says Changing Constants Could Explain Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Record-Setting Day-Long GRB 250702B Confirmed at z = 1.036 as Origin Remains Unsettled

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

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Localized to Dwarf Galaxy at z=2.148

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

Astronomers Reveal Universe’s Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Record 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Titan

Supersonic Turbulence Shaped the First Stars, Simulations Show

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

Webb’s 100-Hour Mid-Infrared Survey of Hubble Ultra Deep Field Reveals Ancient Galaxies

Webb’s COSMOS-Web Survey Yields Deepest Map With Nearly 800,000 Galaxies