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Wandering supermassive black hole discoveries

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Latest: NASA and University of Maryland researchers discover wandering supermassive black hole

The December 2025 tidal-disruption flare (TDE 2025abcr) in galaxy WISEA J014656.04-152214.7 provided the first confirmed wandering supermassive black hole, roughly one-million solar masses and located about 30,000 light-

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Observation of supernova SN 2026gzf

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Latest: Astronomers observe rare real-time supernova shock breakout

In March 2026, the Einstein Probe satellite detected a soft X-ray flash, cataloged as EP260321a, from a galaxy approximately 500 to 515 million light-years away. International research teams identified the source as a br

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Dark energy observational research and surveys

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Latest: Dark energy research advances with new space telescope and DESI data

Astronomical research into dark energy has reached significant milestones through large-scale observational surveys and the development of new space-based technology. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has

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Rubin Observatory LSST Survey Advances

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Latest: Vera C. Rubin Observatory releases first deep image of COSMOS field

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile officially began its ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on 30 June 2026, following a commissioning phase that addressed mirror-cooling and earthquake-related interrupti