Editorial category Track F
Space and planetary sciences
Vocabulary anchored in space and planetary-science research disciplines.
- 9 August 2026
Astronomers Confirm a Supermassive Black Hole Is Running Away
Astronomers have confirmed RBH-1, a supermassive black hole speeding through space at 1,000 km/s with a 200,000-light-year trail, as the first directly confirmed runaway black hole — and a separate study now traces its likely origin to a gravitational-wave recoil kick from an earlier black-hole merger.
- 9 August 2026
Astronomers Catch a Quasar Called ‘the Hatchling’ Mid-Transition
A multi-observatory team using JWST, Hubble, the VLT, Chandra, ALMA and the VLA has caught a distant red quasar — nicknamed ‘the Hatchling’ — in a rarely observed transition phase, as outflowing gas and dust clear away from its active nucleus.
- 9 August 2026
Euclid Telescope Finds 31 Record-Early Quasars in Public Survey Data
Euclid has identified 31 quasars in the early Universe, including two record-breakers from when the cosmos was just 670 million years old — and the catalogue behind the find is going into the public record for other researchers to use.
- 9 August 2026
GWTC-5: LVK’s 390-Event Gravitational-Wave Catalog Is Fully Open Data
LVK’s GWTC-5.0 catalog adds 161 new detections for 390 total gravitational-wave events since 2015 — all released as open data via GWOSC, and a live case study in authorship credit at collaboration scale.
