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Today in the History of Astronomy

Oct. 9, 1873: The birth of Karl Schwarzschild

An oval-shaped all-sky map fills the frame in muted blues and purples, with a bright, dense white and yellow band stretching horizontally across the middle. Small yellow dots are scattered across the upper and lower portions of the oval, with two red dots standing out among them, one on each side of center.

Euclid spots the oldest known quasars

A James Webb Space Telescope image of a dense galaxy cluster filled with hundreds of galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors against a black background. Three small white squares labeled A, B, and C mark gravitationally lensed images of a background quasar near the cluster center. At right, three zoomed-in inset panels labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C show each lensed quasar image as a small red point source.

Did this black hole grow up before its galaxy?

Hubble Space Telescope image of an irregular dwarf galaxy showing bright blue star clusters, pink star-forming regions, and a dusty golden core against a black starfield.

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Active black holes are more common than we thought

The first-ever image taken of a black hole. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope

Today in the History of Astronomy

April 10, 2019: First look at a black hole

How do black holes generate magnetic fields?

How AI helped uncover a new type of supernova

Astronomers detect pair of unique black hole mergers

Black hole caught snacking on star far from host galaxy’s center

Supermassive black hole seen feeding via a pair of spiral arms

Exotic Objects, Robotic Spaceflight

What a mission to a black hole could look like

Webb Telescope discovers possible direct collapse black hole in galaxy collision