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Scientists Spot New Cosmic Object: a 'Black Hole Star'

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to find MoM-BH*-1, a cosmic body the size of our solar system that glows like a star but releases energy like a black hole.

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Scientists Find Faintest Exoplanet Ever Seen From Earth

Two independent teams — one using JWST, one the Very Large Telescope — confirmed Beta Pictoris d, a gas giant that had hidden in telescope images for over a decade.

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31 Oldest Quasars Ever Found: Universe Was Just 5% Its Age

ESA's Euclid telescope discovered 31 ancient quasars — two formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, the oldest ever observed, shining with the light of a trillion suns.

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Astronomers Catch a Magnetar Being Born for the First Time

A distant supernova's strange "chirping" signal has confirmed a decades-old theory — the ultra-magnetic corpses of massive stars can power the brightest explosions in the universe.