According to researchers published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, a newly discovered star designated S301 is racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, at speeds reaching roughly 15,534 miles per second. Discovered in data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama … Read more
Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that IRS 3—a bloated giant star orbiting just 0.55 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*—is actively forging silicate dust and harboring water molecules despite one of the most extreme radiation environments in the galaxy, according to a study … Read more
The AGN Channel: A New Theory for Planet and Star Formation Astronomers have identified a novel environment for celestial formation: the dust-rich tori surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN). According to research published in the Astrophysical Journal, these energetic cores—powered by feeding supermassive black holes—may host millions of planetary-mass objects. A team from New Mexico State … Read more
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a strange red object dating from 660 million years after the Big Bang that MIT researchers believe is a newly identified class of object: a black hole star, a massive black hole wrapped in a dense hydrogen gas cocoon that shines with the power of 100 … Read more
A wandering supermassive black hole weighing about a million times the mass of our Sun has been captured devouring a nearby star on the outer edge of a galaxy 760 million light-years away, according to NASA. The cosmic event, known scientifically as a tidal disruption event, was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after … Read more
Physicists at Penn State have proposed a new framework to calculate the entropy of black holes, moving beyond the 50-year-old paradigm established by Stephen Hawking. By replacing “event horizons” with “dynamical horizons,” the research team provides a method to measure thermodynamics in black holes that are actively merging, growing, or evaporating, according to a study … Read more
Researchers Detect Elusive Wind from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Astronomers at Northwestern University have confirmed the existence of a persistent, energetic wind emanating from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. By analyzing five years of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) and NASA’s … Read more
Researchers at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) have developed a new detector-based framework to accurately measure gravitational waves within an evolving, expanding universe. By defining the signal through the physical response of test masses rather than abstract mathematical coordinates, this method allows scientists to distinguish genuine cosmic waves from the … Read more
New research reveals that magnetic fields act as a cosmic anchor, drawing young stars together to form binary systems. According to a study published April 10, 2026, in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, interactions between interstellar magnetic fields and surrounding gas remove angular momentum from protostars. This process allows binary pairs to … Read more
Hunting the Invisible: How Black Holes Are Becoming the Ultimate Dark Matter Detectors For decades, astronomers have been chasing a ghost. Dark matter makes up roughly 85% of the matter in our universe, yet it remains stubbornly invisible, slipping through telescopes and sensors without leaving a trace. It doesn’t emit light, reflect it, or block … Read more