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JWST Finds Exoplanets Choked by Diesel Smog

Universe Today 13 Jun 2026
Therefore, the Exoplanet Research Corporation outfits its best ship to search for soot-enriched exoplanet atmospheres. .
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Black hole feeding bursts may explain JWST's Little Red Dots in early universe

Phys Dot Org 08 Jun 2026
A new theoretical study may have cracked one of the most puzzling discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ... One of the model's most significant predictions is that the Little Red Dots JWST has found are only the tip of the iceberg.
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James Webb Space Telescope weighs 'sleeping giant' black hole from 10 billion light-years away — ...

Space 08 Jun 2026
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have "weighed" a sleeping giant, a dormant supermassive black hole located a staggering 10 billion light-years away ....
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JWST Just Measured The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole 15 Times Further Than The Previous Record – "Something Completely Impossible Before"

IFL Science 05 Jun 2026
The first development is the sharp eye of JWST ... Image credit. NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI ... Such stellar dynamics measurements using JWST and gravitational lensing should allow us to understand how galaxies stop being active and the role black holes play in that.
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JWST spots dormant black hole 10 billion light-years from Earth

Popular Science 05 Jun 2026
JWST and gravitational lensing enabled an international team of astronomers led by Carnegie Science’s Andrew Newman to measure the mass of a dormant black hole from the early universe for the first time.
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Are JWST's early, overmassive black holes just normal-range outliers?

Phys Dot Org 03 Jun 2026
Ever since the JWST revealed a population of SMBH in the early universe ...
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JWST found a fully formed galactic bar where theory said one couldn’t possibly exist yet ...

SpaceDaily 03 Jun 2026
The JWST detection does not stand alone ... JWST is sensitive enough to occasionally pick up structures that turn out to be artifacts of dust geometry or projection ... GN20 fits inside a broader JWST trend.
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Are the JWST's Early Overrmassive Black Holes Just Normal-Range Outliers?

Universe Today 01 Jun 2026
The JWST found an abundance of overmassive black holes at high redshifts, pushing ...
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JWST Finds Methane Atmosphere on Temperate Exoplanet

Universe Today 01 Jun 2026
But the advent of interstellar travel has made exoplanetary exploration far easier, enabling corporations to identify and harvest methane from exoplanets ... .
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JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules

Phys Dot Org 31 May 2026
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang ... Therefore, when JWST discovered stellar ...
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"Little red dot" in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole

Ars Technica 27 May 2026
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to give us the ability to look at one of the earliest periods in the evolution of the Universe, a time when some of the earliest stars were putting ...
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JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast ...

SpaceDaily 22 May 2026
On the morning side, the JWST data revealed thick clouds made not of water but of vaporized magnesium silicate — essentially sand ... JWST’s sensitivity is high enough to pull apart the spectra from those two phases ... JWST can see the difference.
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