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Hubble Spots Rare Post-Starburst Galaxy Where a Black Hole Stifles New Stars

The new image offers a close test of how an active black hole can shut down star birth in a galaxy.

Webb Reveals Non-Rotating Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe

Hubble Marks 36 Years With Sharper Trifid Nebula Portrait That Shows Change

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

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

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

Lab-Made Cosmic Dust Matches Space Signatures in Peer-Reviewed Study

Precessing Black Hole Jet in VV 340a Drives Vast Outflow in Young Disk Galaxy

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

Earliest Superheated Galaxy-Cluster Atmosphere Detected Challenges Formation Models

Wobbling Black Hole Jet in Spiral Galaxy Drives 20,000-Light-Year Gas Outflow

JWST Reveals Nine Distant ‘Platypus’ Galaxies With Star-Like Profiles and Galaxy-Like Spectra

Nature Study Finds Early Galaxy Cluster With Gas Five Times Hotter Than Models Allow

Hubble Spots Record-Breaking, Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk ‘Dracula’s Chivito’

ALMA Now Fully Equipped as 145 Low-Noise Amplifiers Complete Band 2

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

Webb Maps Four Dust Spirals and Confirms Third Star in Rare Apep Wolf-Rayet System

AI-HPC Breakthrough Delivers First Star-by-Star Milky Way Simulation