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An international team of astrophysicists, including from London, Ont.’s Western University, are using the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal the destruction of one oceans’ worth of water every month in a planetary nursery in the Orion Nebula.
Observations of quasars reveal that many supermassive black holes (BHs) were in place less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. However, the origin of the first BHs remains a mystery. Seeds of the first BHs are postulated to be either light (that is, 10−100 M⊙), remnants of the first stars, or heavy (that is, 10−105 M⊙), originating from the direct collapse of gas clouds. Here, harnessing recent data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we report the detection of an X-ray-luminous massive BH in a gravitationally lensed galaxy identified by the James Webb Sp...
JWST captured a never-before-seen jet stream with winds twice as strong as a Category 5 hurricane.
Professor Joshua Lothringer grew up looking at the stars on the plains of Colorado. Now, the Utah Valley University faculty member helped discover the presence of carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 lightyears from Earth. Lothringer, 31, said he was going to study either music — specifically the guitar — or astronomy if he could […]
A Utah Valley University science professor helped discover carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 lightyears from Earth.