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Extreme Eruption on Young Sun-like Star Signals Savage Environment for Developing Exoplanets
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Astronomers have detected an extreme eruption from a young star that became more than a hundred times brighter in only a few hours. This discovery offers new insight into how young Sun-li...
CfA Astronomer Receives AAS Prize for Extraordinary Service
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Frederick Seward, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), has been awarded the 2024 George Van Biesbroeck Prize from the American Astronomical ...
M87* One Year Later: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow
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Cambridge, MA--The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87*) using data from observa...
Unexpectedly Massive Black Holes Dominate Small Galaxies in the Distant Universe
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New Orleans, LA – Astronomers have discovered that the supermassive black holes in the centers of early galaxies are much more massive than expected. These surprisingly hefty black holes ...
Unveiling Black Hole Spins Using Polarized Radio Glasses
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Distant Stars Spotted for the First Time in the Vast Magellanic Stream
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Cambridge, Mass. – For nearly fifty years, astronomers have come up empty-handed in their search for stars within the sprawling structure known as the Magellanic Stream. A colossal ribbon...
NASA's Hubble Measures the Size of the Nearest Transiting Earth-Sized Planet
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Cambridge, MA — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a neighboring star. This alignment, called a transi...
A Supermassive Black Hole’s Strong Magnetic Fields Are Revealed in a New Light
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Cambridge, MA -- In 2019, the EHT released its first image of a ring of hot plasma close to the event horizon of M87*. In 2021, EHT produced new images in polarized light, giving the firs...
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
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Cambridge, MA -- Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had never been witne...