21+ min ago  (399+ words) "These early quasars date back to the universe's infancy." Using the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 31 black-hole-powered quasars in the early universe. The most impressive of these new discoveries is the most…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago  (378+ words) Innovation allows researchers to explore uncharted areas of particle physics theory The system is called Autonomous Model Builder, or AMBer, and was developed by a research team led by UC Irvine doctoral candidates Victoria Knapp- P'rez and Jake Rudolph in…...

11+ hour, 35+ min ago  (415+ words) A special class of supernovae is distinguished by anomalous brightness because the shock waves of the explosion collide with a dense shell of gas and dust around the stellar system. New modeling has linked the formation of this cocoon to…...

14+ hour, 46+ min ago  (810+ words) From school we know the classic scenario of black hole formation: when a massive star reaches the end of its life cycle, its outer layers are blasted away in a huge supernova explosion, while the core collapses irreversibly. It turns…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago  (489+ words) New research suggests that when black holes collide, the properties of the final, merged object may be determined by a simple entropy-maximizing rule, echoing the second law of thermodynamics. In a paper posted in January 2026, a team led by Monica…...

9+ hour, 55+ min ago  (457+ words) SFL Educational News Service The Core Concept: Astronomers have generated the highest-resolution maps to date of neutral atomic hydrogen in the Orion Nebula, revealing previously unseen structures, such as giant expanding shells and cavities. Key Distinction/Mechanism: By combining observations…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago  (629+ words) Conceptual illustration of Penrose's proposal for extracting energy from a rotating black hole. (CREDIT: Nature) A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop experiment there. The…...

7+ hour, 31+ min ago  (138+ words) In the relation between black hole mass and stellar velocity dispersion, MRG-M0138 appears similar to nearby galaxies. However, when compared with bulge mass, its black hole appears unusually overmassive, about 12 times more massive than expected from the local black hole-bulge…...

9+ hour, 9+ min ago  (1014+ words) Astronomers have found the most distant quasar ever recorded, a blazing galactic core that first shone bright when the universe was only about 670 million years old. It emerged from a batch of 31 ancient quasars found by the Euclid space telescope,…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago  (464+ words) A black hole tore apart a massive star, causing an explosion that emitted energy equivalent to 400 billion Suns, surpassing all previous stellar-collapse explosions. An unprecedented cosmic explosion occurred when a black hole destroyed a massive star, releasing energy far exceeding…...