A distant, impossibly bright stellar death called SN 2025wny has just become one of cosmology’s sharpest tools, bending space-time itself into a natural telescope that may help resolve the universe’s...
A new X-ray census reveals that most small galaxies are missing the supermassive black holes we thought were universal — forcing a rewrite of how cosmic structures grow, trade, and...
In July 2025, astronomers caught a gamma‑ray burst that burned for seven hours—an event so long, bright, and structured that it may force a rethink of how black holes form,...
Astronomers have found the first direct chemical fingerprints of short‑lived, thousand‑solar‑mass ‘monster stars’ in a young galaxy called GS 3073, forcing a radical rethink of how the early universe lit...
In March 2025, astronomers detected an extraordinarily rare cosmic explosion from when the universe was merely 700 million years old—a discovery that illuminates the violent birth of the cosmos's first...