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Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have found that the unique features of supermassive stars align with the similarly unique features of little red dots, a class ...
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Minor Planet Center

Along with the major planets — Earth, Jupiter, and so forth — the Solar System is home to many small bodies including asteroids, comets, Kuiper Belt objects like Pluto, and their satellites. While the ...
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New X-ray Space Telescope Gives Sharpest-Ever Glimpse at Growth of a Rapidly-Spinning Black Hole

The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the ...
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NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary ...
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CfA Science in the Press at AAS 247

CfA scientists are authors on 77 presentations, and four press conferences during the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society Cambridge, Mass. (December 22, 2025)— New scientific results ...
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Einstein's Theory of Gravitation

Capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This image of the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87 reveals how gravitation affects the ...
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Star Clusters

Stars are often gregarious things. Based on observation and theoretical models, many stars are born in clusters — groups of ten or more stars that were formed from the same interstellar cloud. The ...
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Scientists Use JWST to Examine Ancient Monster Stars That May Reveal the Birth of Black Holes

A new study shows that mysterious “Little Red Dots” seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are likely supermassive stars, shedding light on the earliest days of our universe The findings offer a ...
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Scientists Find More Active Black Holes in Dwarf and Milky Way-sized Galaxies By Cutting Through Glare of Star Formation

A new census of more than 8,000 galaxies finds active black holes rising in frequency with galaxy mass, jumping sharply in galaxies similar in mass to the Milky Way Cambridge, MA (January 8, 2025) ...
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Eight CfA Scientists Honored As Prizewinners and Fellows by the American Astronomical Society

Phoenix, AZ (January 8, 2026) —Eight scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have been named prizewinners and fellows of the American Astronomical Society for 2026.
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Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars #0

The image on the left shows the newly discovered Phoenix Cluster, located about 5.7 billion light years from Earth. This composite includes an X-ray image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in ...