1️⃣ Can the ELT Detect Oxygen on Exoplanets
Researchers calculated how many transits the future ELT would need to spot biosignatures in the atmospheres of planets in the habitable zone.
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2️⃣ Third Planet at Beta Pictoris Found by Its Air
James Webb spotted Beta Pictoris d not by its light but by its atmospheric chemistry. It is at least twice the mass of Jupiter.
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3️⃣ Roman Will Catch Stars Torn Apart by Black Holes
The upcoming telescope could detect supermassive black holes from up to 11 billion years ago by the flares of shredded stars.
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4️⃣ A Shredded Star Behaved Like a Binary System
Event 2025aarm showed X-ray state transitions previously seen only in binary systems with black holes.
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5️⃣ Hubble Finds First Black Hole in Omega Centauri
In a cluster of 10 million stars, the first stellar-mass black hole was found using astrometry and 20 years of archived data.
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