Kandice Tirado

Astronomers Found The Oldest, Most Distant Black Hole (BH), Formed ~13.3B Yrs Ago In Galaxy (G) CAPERS-LRD-z9. The BH Is ~300M× Our Sun’s Mass & ~10× Milky Way’s BH. The G, In The “Little Red Dots” Class, Is Compact, Bright, And Red; With Red Color Cause Unclear. Both BH & G, Found Via JWST Spectroscopy, Offer Clues To Early G/BH Evolution.

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In Nov 2023, Scientists Detected The Biggest Black Hole (BH) Merger Ever: Two BHs Of 103 And 137 Solar Masses (SM) Collided 10bn Ly Away, Spinning ~40K x Earth’s. The Resulting 265-SM BH, Detected Via Gravitational Waves, Breaks The Previous 140 SM Record And Challenges Current BH Formation Models, Suggesting Layered Mergers From Prior Collisions.

JWST Has Directly Imaged Exoplanet TWA 7b—~100x Earth’s Mass & Located 111 Ly Away—Orbiting A Young 6.4-Myr-Old Star CE Antilae. It’s The Lightest Planet Ever Imaged In This Way, Enabled By JWST’s Infrared Vision & A Coronagraph That Blocks Starlight To Reveal Faint Nearby Planets. This Marks A Major Leap In Studying Early Planet Formation.

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Scientists Discovered The Hadal Snailfish, Earth’s Deepest-Living Vertebrate, Thriving Over 36k Ft Deep In The Mariana Trench. Their Survival Ability In Extremely Harsh Conditions Aids In Exploring Extraterrestrial Life Possibilities & Emphasizes Responsible Practices During Deep-Sea Resource Extraction To Protect These Fragile Ecosystems.

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In A World-First, Astronomers Have Witnessed A Supermassive Black Hole “Waking Up” And Brightening In Real-Time. Located 360 Million Light-Years Away In Galaxy SDSS1335+0728, The Black Hole Has Shown Increased Luminosity Since 2019, But Its Activation Cause Remains Unknown. Similar Activation Could Occur With Sagittarius A* In Our Galaxy.

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