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This illustration shows dense gas (green arrows) moving along filaments into a star forming hub. It also shows less dense (blue arrows) gas flowing through the interfilament regions. Observations show that the dense gas moves more quickly than the gas in the interfilament regions. But the less dense gas also plays an important role. It moves more slowly and sideways into the filaments, replenishing their supply. Image Credit: Jihye Hwang/Kyushu University.

Astronomers Trace How Gas Feeds a Stellar Nursery in Monoceros R2

Astronomers mapped gas motions in the Monoceros R2 star-forming region.
Dense gas moves along filaments into a central hub where star formation is active.
Lower-density gas in interfilament regions appears to replenish those filaments from the sides.
The observations support a multiscale model in which star-forming hubs are sustained by nested inflows.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 20, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Three galaxy pairs show three stages of interaction

NASA’s APOD contrasts three galaxy pairs to show different interaction states.
NGC 4650A may preserve evidence of a past collision despite no current interaction.
NGC 4622A and NGC 4622B are actively interacting and may merge in about a billion years.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 10, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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Asteroid-mass primordial black holes (PBH), though hypothetical, are a candidate to be dark matter, or at least a portion of it. New research says that if they're real, they could trigger Type Ia supernovae when they pass through stars. This would leave an observable signature. Image Credit: Zdeněk Bardon / ESO

Study links primordial black holes to Type Ia supernova triggers

Researchers propose that asteroid-mass primordial black holes could trigger Type Ia supernovae in white dwarfs.
The mechanism relies on tidal heating that can start runaway nuclear burning inside the star.
Astronomers may be able to test the idea through supernova remnants and galactic chemical signatures.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 31, 2026·via universetoday.com

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![The full trail of galaxies, with an inset image of DF9 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Keim et al. (2026)/DECaLS/HST](/article_images/YN_DF9-drak-galaxy_20260630_213201.jpg) *The full trail of galaxies, with an inset image of DF9 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Keim et al. (2026)/DECaLS/HST* (via universetoday.com)

Astronomers find another galaxy that appears to lack dark matter

DF9 appears to be the third galaxy in a 12-galaxy string that lacks dark matter.
Researchers say the pattern may support the idea that violent collisions can separate visible and dark matter.
The finding adds pressure to refine how astronomers model unusual dwarf galaxy formation.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 29, 2026·via livescience.com

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Artist's depiction of a stellar black hole in a binary system. Credit - ESO/L. Calçada/M.Kornmesser

A Black Hole Probe Is Still Fiction, but Researchers Are Sketching the Requirements

A new preprint examines requirements for sending a gram-scale probe to a nearby stellar-mass black hole.
Researchers argue the Milky Way may contain many isolated black holes that remain undetected.
The concept depends first on discovering a sufficiently nearby target, potentially within a few dozen light-years.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 26, 2026·via universetoday.com

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The Black Hole at the Center of the super-giant elliptical galaxy M87. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

New M87 Black Hole Map Reveals How Emission Changes With Distance

Researchers produced the first spatially resolved dual-frequency spectral study of the M87 black hole.
The analysis combined 1.3 mm and 3.5 mm observations from the EHT and GMVA.
The inner region shows signs of synchrotron self-absorption, while outer regions appear more optically thin.
The work offers a new method for probing plasma conditions around a supermassive black hole.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 25, 2026·via universetoday.com

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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on June 21st, 2026. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVS

Roman Space Telescope reaches Florida for final launch preparations

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope reached Kennedy Space Center on June 21 for final prelaunch work.
Technicians will test solar panels, inspect thermal systems and load about 290 gallons of hydrazine.
The observatory is designed to survey the cosmos at a far wider field of view than Hubble.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 27, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Experience the Launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

NASA opens applications for Roman launch creator event

NASA says the Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on August 30, 2026.
The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center.
NASA is selecting up to 50 digital creators for a two-day launch event.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 15, 2026·via nasa.gov

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An image of the core region of Messier 87, a supermassive black hole, processed from a sparse array of radio telescopes known as the EHT with colours indicating brightness temperature (Credit : Event Horizon Telescope)

Black Hole Topology Offers a New Way to Classify Cosmic Extremes

Black holes have temperature and entropy, not just gravity.
Researchers build thermodynamic landscapes using variables such as temperature, entropy, and pressure.
Zero points in those landscapes can be assigned topological charges.
Different black holes, including Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom types, fall into different topological classes.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 12, 2026·via universetoday.com

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The Roman observatory in a clean room

Roman Space Telescope heads to Kennedy for launch processing

Roman is traveling from Goddard to Kennedy aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge.
The observatory will move into launch processing at Kennedy.
NASA says Roman will study dark energy and directly image planets around nearby stars as a technology demonstration.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 2, 2026·via nasa.gov

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NASA’s PUEO Turns Antarctica Into a Detector for the Extreme Universe

PUEO launched from Antarctica on Dec. 20, 2025 and flew for 23 days.
The mission uses Antarctic ice as a detection volume for radio signals from ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions.
NASA says the instrument also can detect radio signatures from high-energy cosmic-ray air showers.

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DT Editorial Team·May 26, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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This artist's illustration shows a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the early Universe. The JWST found galaxies in the very early Universe that were extremely massive compared to their host galaxies. New research has an explanation for those puzzling findings. Image Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva (Spaceengine)

A new theory aims to explain why JWST keeps finding oversized black holes in the early universe

JWST found early galaxies with black holes far larger than expected relative to host mass.
A new paper proposes an explanation for these overmassive black hole galaxies.
The findings challenge standard ideas of synchronized galaxy and black hole growth.

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DT Editorial Team·May 19, 2026·via universetoday.com

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This illustration shows the Solar System's passage through the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC). The LIC could've been created by supernovae shockwaves, which also produced the isotope 60Fe. By examining that isotope in Antarctic ice, scientists are learning more about the LIC and Earth's passage through it. Image Credit: NASA / Adler / University of Chicago / Wesleyan.

Iron-60 in Antarctic Ice May Trace Earth’s Passage Through an Interstellar Cloud

Researchers are studying iron-60 in Antarctic ice as a tracer of nearby supernova activity.
A new paper argues the isotope may record the structure of the Local Interstellar Cloud.
Iron-60 has no Earthly source and a half-life of about 2.6 million years, making it a useful cosmic marker.
The work builds on a 2019 first detection of iron-60 in Antarctica.

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DT Editorial Team·May 19, 2026·via universetoday.com

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A simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Credit: Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/American Museum of Natural History

New dark matter model aims to connect three long-standing cosmic puzzles

A UC Riverside-led study proposes self-interacting dark matter as a common explanation for three anomalies.
The model focuses on dense compact cores created through gravothermal collapse.
The idea could connect observations from gravitational lenses, stellar streams, and satellite systems.

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DT Editorial Team·May 16, 2026·via universetoday.com

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The Universe’s biggest black holes may be forged in violent mergers

Gravitational-Wave Data Suggest the Biggest Black Holes Are Built Through Repeated Collisions

Researchers analyzed 153 reliable black hole merger detections from GWTC4.
The most massive black holes appear to form through hierarchical mergers.
Dense star clusters may enable repeated black hole collisions.
Spin signatures suggest a separate high-mass black hole population.

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DT Editorial Team·May 9, 2026·via sciencedaily.com

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An artist's conception of the Pandora mission. Credit: NASA.

Pandora exoplanet mission returns first engineering images as commissioning continues

Pandora has returned its first engineering images from space.
The mission is the first NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program observatory to do so.
Pandora will study 20 known transiting exoplanets using simultaneous visible and infrared observations.

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DT Editorial Team·May 7, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Artist's impression of the Cygnus X-1 binary system. Credit: ICRAR

Black Hole Jets in Cygnus X-1 Measured at Power Equivalent to 10000 Suns

Researchers used 18 years of radio imaging to study jets in Cygnus X-1.
The jets were measured at a power equivalent to 10,000 Suns.
The team estimated jet speeds at roughly half the speed of light.

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DT Editorial Team·May 7, 2026·via universetoday.com

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A ball of yellow and pink sits behind a wall of pink gas with ripples of black and green gridded fabric in the foreground.

AI Cosmology Tool Promises Sharper View of How the Universe Changes

Researchers describe a new AI approach intended to improve reconstruction of cosmic change from observational data.
The method targets a known weakness in genetic algorithms: unstable estimates of derivatives and other nonobservable quantities.
If validated, the technique could strengthen tests of the standard cosmological model and help probe unresolved tensions in the field.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 28, 2026·via livescience.com

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100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned

Three New Analyses Are Challenging a Core Assumption of Cosmology

Three preprints challenge the assumption that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on very large scales.
A new test uses supernova and matter-density observations and should return zero if FLRW holds.
Researchers applying the test to existing data reported a clear nonzero result.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 27, 2026·via newscientist.com

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This illustration shows a pair-instability supernova explosion. These types of explosions leave nothing behind, not even a black hole. They can explain the black hole Forbidden Gap in black hole masses, according to new research. Image Credit: Gemini Observatory / NSF / AURA / Joy Pollard.

Black-hole census strengthens the case for a long-predicted forbidden gap

New research argues that pair-instability supernovae help explain a predicted black-hole mass gap.
Gravitational-wave detections now provide a growing census of black-hole masses.
Black holes above roughly 45 solar masses appear rarer than simple collapse models would suggest.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 24, 2026·via universetoday.com

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