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Ultralight dark matter could explain early black hole formation
A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and they differ in size, formation, ...
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Image: X-ray clues reveal a star that may have destroyed a planet
This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center; this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen before—and could explain a mysterious ...
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Webb explores effect of strong magnetic fields on star formation
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming protostars and insights ...
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Sagittarius C: Webb provides closest look yet at one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Here, a massive and dense ...
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Melodies of musical 'starquakes' shed new light on how our galaxy formed
They say music is the universal language of humankind, but some stars in our galaxy exhibit their own rhythm, offering fresh clues into how they and our galaxy evolved over time.
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Galaxies die earlier than expected: Webb sees signs of halted star formation 700 million years after Big Bang
An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, indicating that galaxies stop forming stars earlier than predicted by models.
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KiDS dataset doesn't shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers
Data from 41 million galaxies does not shake up the standard cosmological model after all. To that conclusion, to their own surprise, comes an international team of researchers including Koen Kuijken, professor at the Leiden ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb
One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was first observed in 1919 during a total solar eclipse. Since stars appear as points of light, the effect ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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NASA's SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies
NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has turned on its detectors for the first time in space. Initial images from the observatory, which launched ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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Multifrequency observations explore radio galaxy 3C 111 and its jet
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), European astronomers have carried out multi-wavelength radio observations of a radio galaxy designated 3C 111. Results of the observational campaign, published March 24 on the arXiv ...
Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where to look for life in the universe
One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you'd get sucked in by its gravitational pull, or burn up from ...
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Mar 31, 2025
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Dark matter could make planets spin faster
Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or how exactly it fits into our understanding of the universe. We only know that its unseen mass is ...
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Mar 31, 2025
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Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind binary system, observations find
Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations of a massive star known as Melnick 39. As a result, they found that Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind ...
Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy.
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Mar 30, 2025
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Supernova archaeology: Finding clues in the ruins of an ancient dead star with Chandra
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology ...
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Mar 29, 2025
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Experiment shows theory describing formation of interstellar benzene does not actually produce benzene
Astrophysicists at the University of Colorado's JILA, National Institute of Science and Technology, have conducted an experiment to produce benzene the way theories have predicted it is produced in interstellar space and ...
NOAA's GOES-19 satellite releases new coronagraph data to public
Near real-time preliminary data from NOAA's first Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the GOES-19 satellite, are now publicly accessible. GOES-19, launched in June 2024, began providing the new ...
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Mar 28, 2025
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Video: Watch wind whirl from the sun
Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission is the first to capture on camera this wind flying out from the sun in a twisting, whirling motion. ...
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Mar 27, 2025
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New data shed light on impact of charged ions from coronal mass ejections
A new study has provided precise atomic data that shed light on the impact of charged ions from coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series on March 18, the study was led by researchers ...
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Mar 27, 2025
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Scientists develop neural networks to enhance spectral data compression efficiency for new vacuum solar telescope
Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southwest Forestry University have developed an advanced neural network-based method to improve the compression of spectral data from the New ...
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Mar 27, 2025
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