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VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

By resolving gas motions with GRAVITY+, astronomers found powerful outflows that likely inflated earlier mass estimates by roughly an order of magnitude.

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Five-Image Einstein Cross Points to Massive Dark Matter Halo

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Astronomers Measure First Black-Hole Recoil, Tracing Newborn’s 3D Flight From 2019 Merger

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UMass Study Predicts Strong Odds of Witnessing a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Within a Decade

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JWST Confirms First Silane Detection in Ancient Brown Dwarf, Recasting Planetary Cloud Chemistry

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Crystal-Clear GW250114 Validates Hawking’s Area Law, Confirms Kerr-Like Remnant

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

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VLT Spectra Reveal Gas Ring Around V Sagittae, Hinting at Likely Nova in Coming Years

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JWST Spots Unusually Compact Early-Universe Black Hole That May Predate Its Galaxy

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

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Astronomers Directly Image Newborn Planet in Multi-Ringed Disk in First Clear Case

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VLT Directly Images Infant Gas Giant ‘WISPIT 2b’ Inside Planet‑Building Disk

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Astronomers Identify Ultra-Stripped Supernova, Propose New ‘Type Ien’

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CHIME Outriggers Pinpoint Record-Bright Fast Radio Burst to Nearby Spiral Galaxy

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Study Proposes Dark Matter Could Spawn Planet-Devouring Black Holes Inside Gas Giants

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IXPE Detects Unexpectedly High X-Ray Polarization From Heartbeat Black Hole

Observational Astronomy

VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

Five-Image Einstein Cross Points to Massive Dark Matter Halo

Astronomers Measure First Black-Hole Recoil, Tracing Newborn’s 3D Flight From 2019 Merger

UMass Study Predicts Strong Odds of Witnessing a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Within a Decade

JWST Confirms First Silane Detection in Ancient Brown Dwarf, Recasting Planetary Cloud Chemistry

Crystal-Clear GW250114 Validates Hawking’s Area Law, Confirms Kerr-Like Remnant

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

VLT Spectra Reveal Gas Ring Around V Sagittae, Hinting at Likely Nova in Coming Years

JWST Spots Unusually Compact Early-Universe Black Hole That May Predate Its Galaxy

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

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Astronomers Directly Image Newborn Planet in Multi-Ringed Disk in First Clear Case

VLT Directly Images Infant Gas Giant ‘WISPIT 2b’ Inside Planet‑Building Disk

Astronomers Identify Ultra-Stripped Supernova, Propose New ‘Type Ien’

CHIME Outriggers Pinpoint Record-Bright Fast Radio Burst to Nearby Spiral Galaxy

Study Proposes Dark Matter Could Spawn Planet-Devouring Black Holes Inside Gas Giants

Astronomers Identify New Supernova Type That Exposes a Star’s Deepest Layers

Black Hole-Star Encounter Likely Sparked Rare Double-Peaked Supernova

Black Hole–Star Encounter Likely Spawned SN 2023zkd, Study Finds

VLBA Unveils Toroidal Magnetic Field in Neutrino-Bright Blazar Jet

IXPE Detects Unexpectedly High X-Ray Polarization From Heartbeat Black Hole

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