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European Space Agency (ESA): ESA Adopts Galactic Archaeology Mission Arrakihs www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy: From Dusk till Dawn www.mpia.de/news/science...

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Carnegie Science: JWST Measures Mass of a Dormant Black Hole from the Early Universe for the First Time carnegiescience.edu/jwst-measure...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center: JWST Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for "Black Hole Stars" science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Royal Astronomical Society: Galaxy-Killing Wind Discovered in the Early Universe ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

University College London: Researchers Weigh the Most Distant Dormant Black Hole www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ju...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Astronomers Discover the Earliest Known Flickering Quasar news.mit.edu/2026/mit-ast...

Northwestern University: Found: Milky Way Black Hole’s Missing Wind news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Columbia University: Astronomers Discover the Earliest Known Flickering Quasar news.columbia.edu/news/astrono...

Southwest Research Institute: Impact History of Early Earth Created Conditions Conducive to Life www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...

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When the universe was just 850 million years old, this voracious black hole was already surprisingly mature, a new study finds.

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Astronomers Discover the Earliest Known Flickering Quasar

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Astronomers reveal atmospheric differences between morning and evening sides of ultrahot exoplanet WASP121 b using JWST observations.

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From Dusk Till Dawn

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture the faint light from nearby galaxy haloes. ...

ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

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Astronomers have discovered a 'galaxy-killing wind' that may explain why there are far more massive 'dead' galaxies than expected in the early universe. This wind, p...

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Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe

The half-century-long search is finally over, opening a new window into the physics at play in the center of the galaxy

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Found: Milky Way black hole’s missing wind

NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’ - NASA Science

The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a

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SwRI scientists modeled how impacts fractured, heated the Earth’s crust, supporting hydrothermal conditions

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Impact history of early Earth created conditions conducive to life | Southwest Research Institute

Scientists detected a quasar flickering from the very early universe, a time known as the “cosmic dawn,” just 850 million years after the Big Bang. This is the earliest flickering quasar detected to d...

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MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar

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The most distant, nearly invisible dormant black hole has been detected and ‘weighed’ by an international team of astronomers that includes researchers from UCL.

Researchers weigh the most distant dormant black hole