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Astronomy
Webb's 'Little Red Dots' Turn Out to Be the Tip of a Supermassive-Black-Hole Iceberg
A nearby spiral nicknamed 'the Saguaro' just gave astronomers the missing piece of the little red dot puzzle: faint, buried X-rays confirming these mysterious JWST objects are ordinary black holes caught in an unusually obscured growth spurt.
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Astronomy
Hubble Watches a Nova Fire 'Bullets' Through the Milky Way at 20 Million MPH
Hubble imagery reported July 24, 2026 shows a nova launching dense clumps of ejected material across the galaxy at roughly 20 million mph — and astronomers still can't explain where the projectiles come from.
