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A supergiant in Andromeda dimmed 10,000-fold and disappeared with no supernova. The numbers behind this 'failed supernova' point to a black hole born in silence.
The observable universe spans 93 billion light-years, yet is only 13.8 billion years old. Here's the physics that resolves this mind-bending contradiction.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the sharpest image ever taken around a black hole, revealing that 87% of the hot dust near the Circinus Galaxy's core is being consumed — not blown away.
The James Webb Space Telescope is finding black holes in the early universe so massive they outweigh their entire host galaxies — and nobody fully knows how.
White dwarfs are caught consuming their own planetary systems at an alarming rate. New JWST data reveals exactly how it happens — and confirms Earth faces the same fate in 5 billion years.