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James Webb space telescope in deep space researching far galaxies. (Getty Images/dima_zel)

"Little red dots" space mystery solved

Matthew Rozsa
Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Why dark matter's mysteries persist

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Supermassive black holes slowing growth

Fan Zou, W. Niel Brandt
In late 2019, the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before and was classified as having an active galactic nucleus, powered by a massive black hole in the galaxy’s core. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Scientists witness a black hole awaken

Matthew Rozsa
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Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling motion it induces on a companion star. This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole, dubbed Gaia BH3, around their common centre of mass. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Unexpected massive black hole discovery

Rae Hodge
A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light. (EHT Collaboration)

Black hole pic reveals Milky Way enigma

Rae Hodge
Artist’s Impression of Heaviest Supermassive Binary Black Hole (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. daSilva/M. Zamani)

Heaviest black hole pair ever measured

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole (Getty Images/Petrovich9)

How to juice energy from a black hole

Nicole Karlis
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Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dark matter's invisible perioidic table

Rae Hodge
Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK)

Black holes eat faster than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. A quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/CC BY 4.0)

Black holes may grow up in neighborhoods

Jaclyn Champagne - The Conversation
An illustration of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Dark matter-powered stars may exist

Matthew Rozsa
In this artist’s interpretation, a pair of supermassive black holes (top left) emits gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)

Scientists “hear” gravitational wave hum

Nicole Karlis
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Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back

Chad Hanna - The Conversation
Supermassive Black Hole (Getty Images/solarseven)

Astronomers eye a "runaway" black hole

Nicole Karlis
Black hole (Getty Images/Picture Umar)

Black holes don't just suck — they blow

Troy Farah
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Visualizing star-munching black holes

Troy Farah
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This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Black holes on a collision course

Troy Farah
Artist’s concept of a fallback disk around pulsar 4U 0142+61. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))

A strange star with a solid surface

Troy Farah
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravity: The final frontier

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

Gamma ray pulse sweeps Earth

Matthew Rozsa
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