A Black Hole’s Puzzling X-Ray Bursts
A supermassive black hole awakened seven years ago, and it’s now behaving in a way astronomers can’t explain.
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The Oldest Starlight
Astrobites reports on whether JWST’s most extreme high-redshift galaxy candidates aren’t galaxies at all, but the explosive deaths of the very first stars.
Monthly Roundup: Science of the Sun
Researchers search for the tiniest coronal jets, explore the Sun’s behavior from centuries ago, and examine space weather forecasts in this month’s Roundup.
How Galaxies Grow Up
A massive survey of images collected by JWST is shedding light on how galaxies grow and evolve.
How Tilted Orbits Impact Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
Researchers explore how the tilt of merging galaxies can impact the eventual collision of their supermassive black holes.
A Possible GLIMPSE of the Universe’s First Stars
Astrobites reports on a new method to find the galaxies hosting the universe’s first generation of stars.
Featured Image: Disequilibrium on Display
Interacting galaxies, sparkling starbursts, and strange structures abound in new images from the Hubble Arp Galaxy Survey.
Water Vapor Around a Sizzling Supergiant: High-Resolution Spectroscopy of B[e] Supergiant LHA 115-S 18
Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18.
Enhancing the Sharpest Images
Event Horizon Telescope images are already some of the sharpest in all of astronomy. A new algorithm might be able to squeeze even more information out of them with complex statistical modeling.
Observing the End of Star Formation in Galaxies
Astrobites reports on a study of galaxies that are on the brink of entering their “quiet” phase.
Comets Are Lizards: Watching C/2023 P1 Regrow Its Tail
A comet tangled with a coronal mass ejection and lost part of its tail in the process.
Featured Image: Massive Stars in the Making
JWST examines one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way, where two massive protoclusters are shaping 10,000 solar masses of gas into new stars.