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NewsApr 30

Astronomers Image the First Close Binary Supermassive Black Hole Pair, Caught Spiraling Toward a Merger in Markarian 501

A 23-year radio campaign on the blazar Mrk 501 reveals a second jet from a hidden supermassive companion orbiting every 121 days, the first directly imaged close SMBH binary.

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NewsApr 23

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JWST Finds Unexpected Water-Ice Clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab, the Closest Directly Imaged Super-Jupiter

A new JWST MIRI observation of the 12-light-year-away exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab shows less ammonia than models predict, pointing to thick water-ice cirrus clouds that current atmospheric models omit.

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