The vicinity of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center,…
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The Great Red Spot Probably Formed in the Early 1800s
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) is one of the Solar System’s defining features. It’s a massive…
A New Way to Prove if Primordial Black Holes Contribute to Dark Matter
The early Universe was a strange place. Early in its history—in the first quintillionth of a…
Almost a Third of Early Galaxies Were Already Spirals
In the years before the JWST’s launch, astronomers’ efforts to understand the early Universe were stymied…
Rotation Curves of Galaxies Stay Flat Indefinitely
In his classic book On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the philosopher Thomas Kuhn posited that,…
Which Stars are Lethal to their Planets?
Many years ago, there was a viral YouTube video called “History of the entire world, i…
New Simulation Explains how Supermassive Black Holes Grew so Quickly
One of the main scientific objectives of next-generation observatories (like the James Webb Space Telescope) has…
Fish Could Turn Regolith into Fertile Soil on Mars
What a wonderful arguably simple solution. Here’s the problem, we travel to Mars but how do…
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up for Finding Liquid Water on Mars
In the coming decades, NASA and China intend to send the first crewed missions to Mars.…
Webb is an Amazing Supernova Hunter
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just increased the number of known distant supernovae by…