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The monstrous black hole at the core of the Milky Way is having an existential crisis. Instead of sitting quietly like a well-behaved abyss, it flickers, flares, and bubbles with bursts of energy—seemingly at random. Scientists aimed the James Webb Space Telescope...
Gas Giant Exoplanets Formed Shockingly Fast—And Scientists Are Scrambling to Keep Up
The universe doesn’t wait for anyone—not even astronomers with carefully crafted theories. Turns out, massive gas giant exoplanets like Jupiter aren’t taking their sweet time to form. New research from Ohio State University suggests they’re assembling in nearly half...
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AI Just Outsmarted Humans at Detecting Cosmic Cataclysms—In One Second
Neutron stars don’t just sit quietly in the void. Sometimes, they slam into each other with the force of a billion supernovae, warping spacetime and unleashing both gravitational waves and electromagnetic chaos. In 2017, humanity caught one of these cosmic train...
Venus May Be a Death Trap, but Scientists Are Sending a Probe Anyway
Venus is the planetary equivalent of a locked biohazard lab, with sulfuric acid clouds thick enough to melt optimism. Any sane organism would avoid it. Instead, scientists are planning to send a probe straight into the inferno—because why not? Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, a...Recent News
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