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Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

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Breakthrough Listen Reports Candidate Millisecond Pulsar Near Sagittarius A*

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Black Hole’s Delayed Tidal Disruption Jet Keeps Surging, Now 50× Brighter

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

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Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

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Kepler Archive Reveals Earth-Size Exoplanet Candidate Near Habitable Zone

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Kepler Data Reveal Earth-Size Planet Candidate HD 137010 b Near Star’s Habitable Edge

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

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DES Year 6 Delivers Precise 3×2pt Cosmology With Mild CMB Discrepancy

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Solar Orbiter Pinpoints Avalanche Reconnection as Trigger of Major 2024 Solar Flare

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Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

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JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

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JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

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Astronomers Spot Long-Lived Bow Shock Around Diskless White Dwarf, Defying Models

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

Observational Astronomy

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

ALMA Maps Show Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Exceptionally Methanol-Rich

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

Astronomers Trace Andromeda Star's Quiet Collapse Into a Black Hole

Science Study Details Andromeda Star’s Disappearance, Pointing to Black Hole Birth

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

Breakthrough Listen Reports Candidate Millisecond Pulsar Near Sagittarius A*

Black Hole’s Delayed Tidal Disruption Jet Keeps Surging, Now 50× Brighter

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

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

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Kepler Archive Reveals Earth-Size Exoplanet Candidate Near Habitable Zone

Kepler Data Reveal Earth-Size Planet Candidate HD 137010 b Near Star’s Habitable Edge

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

DES Year 6 Delivers Precise 3×2pt Cosmology With Mild CMB Discrepancy

Solar Orbiter Pinpoints Avalanche Reconnection as Trigger of Major 2024 Solar Flare

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers Spot Long-Lived Bow Shock Around Diskless White Dwarf, Defying Models

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

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