The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Although ‘steam worlds’ were first proposed about twenty years ago, they are now supported by observations. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor around several sub-Neptunes, with ...

Mysterious red dots spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be an entirely new kind of astronomical object ...

Recent observations of the Kuiper Belt have revealed anomalies that suggest the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

Scientists have recently traced enigmatic “heartbeat” signals to a black hole located 1,000 light-years from Earth. These ...

A recent study reveals dynamic transformations in Earth's lower mantle, impacting both earthquakes and the magnetic field.

Since the release of the first data in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has enabled researchers to study extremely distant galaxies, reshaping our understanding of the formation and ...

A team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover 12 ancient black holes from 12.9 billion years ago ...

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