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Simulations Suggest JWST’s Little Red Dots Are Rapidly Growing Black Hole Seeds

Confirmation would show ordinary early‑Universe physics can make massive black holes.

Roman Space Telescope Has Fuel for at Least 22 Years, NASA Says

Lensing Model Recasts LIGO’s Massive Black‑Hole Merger as an Optical Illusion

Physicists Offer New-Physics Explanation for an 'Impossible' 300‑TeV Photon from the BOAT

Rescue Mission for NASA’s Swift Telescope Canceled After Servicer Suffers Control Failures

Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch Sunday on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

12 August Solar Eclipse Produces Rare Space Images and Leads to Theft of INAF Gear

JWST Identifies Candidate 'Black‑Hole‑Star' From the First Billion Years

Astronomers Find First Globular-Cluster Stellar Stream Beyond the Milky Way

Webb Detects Water and Silicate Dust in Star Beside Milky Way’s Black Hole

Rare X‑Ray Flash Reveals Faint Shock Breakout in Type Ic‑BL Supernova

AI Flagged a Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star

ALMA Archival Search Recasts How Many Stars We've Searched for Alien Signals

Webb Sees Gas Filaments Feed Black Hole’s Rotating Nuclear Disk

Spain Readies for One-Month Countdown to August 12 Total Solar Eclipse

Euclid Finds 31 Primordial Quasars, Including Two New Distance Records

Euclid Doubles Known Early Quasars and Reveals Objects from 670 Million Years After the Big Bang

New JWST Findings Complicate Origins of Little Red Dots

Citizen Scientist Flags Bow‑and‑Arrow Radio Galaxy Suggesting a Giant Bow Shock

Distant Lensed Starburst Identified as Leading Candidate for 2021 IceCube Neutrino