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First-time evidence of the presence of an accretion disk within the active galactic nucleus
Accretion disks: How big are they really?
A giant black hole tore apart a massive star
Astronomers have made a thorough forensic study of a star when it ventured too close to a giant black hole.
New image offers clues on massive planet birth
A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using...
There is still a role for retired stars in planet formation
Old stars roaming through new star-forming regions could be responsible for a radioactive heat source.
Astronomers discover striking evidence of ‘unusual’ stellar evolution
Magnetic activity plays key role in exoplanet habitability.
The most distant active supermassive black hole to date discovered
It is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.
Strong hints of monster gravitational waves warping the Galaxy
A collective hum of gravitational waves from many pairs of merging black holes throughout the universe.
A cosmic web 10 galaxies found to exist just 830 million years after the big bang
NASA’s Webb identifies the earliest strands of the cosmic web.