Featured image: Laser-induced vesicles on the Murchison meteorite (Tai, K., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A231) www.aanda.org/component/is...

UNIGE press release: A “rebellious” exoplanet orbits in the opposite direction of its star www.unige.ch/medias/en/20... Article by Carteret et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Featured image: Photopolarimetry of millimeter dust pebbles (García-Izquierdo, F. J., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A198) www.aanda.org/component/is...

NCBJ press release: How to effectively identify galaxy mergers? NCBJ researchers compare morphological methods and machine learning www.ncbj.gov.pl/en/news/how-... Article by Cotter et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych

Nasze Centrum to unikalna jednostka badawcza w skali kraju. Mamy bardzo bogatą historię, a przede wszystkim ogromny dorobek naukowy, głównie w takich dziedzinach jak: fizyka, technologie jądrowe i pl...

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Featured image: The LOFAR Galaxy Cluster Ultra-Deep Field (Botteon, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A150) www.aanda.org/component/is...

Highlight: Expanding stellar associations as Galactic accelerometers by Till Sawala, Núria Miret Roig 2026, A&A, 713, A261 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

NOA press release: Brewing, Raging and Lulling: Astronomers catch a quasar storm in action xraygroup.astro.noa.gr/brewing-ragi... Article by Akylas et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

INAF press release: Galaxy "ghostbusters" with the VST www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news... Article by Tortora et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Dublin Uni. press release: Scientists discover how to decode weather on faraway, deep-space worlds www.tcd.ie/news_events/... Article by Schrader et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Highlight: The JWST weather report: Unravelling the atmospheric variability of isolated worlds using principal component analysis by Merle A. Schrader, Johanna M. Vos, Evert Nasedkin, Jennifer Kestell, et al. 2026, A&A, 713, A192 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

Featured image: Magma ocean interior-atmosphere feedback evolution (Sastre, M., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A159) www.aanda.org/component/issues/?task=images

ICE-CSIC press release: Ultra-fast black hole winds detected for the first time in a 'dead' galaxy ice.csic.es/news/news-pr... Article by Xu et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

IAC press release: An IAC study reveals that galaxies can grow in an "explosive" way www.iac.es/en/outreach/... Article by Ruiz Cejudo et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

MPE press release: Black holes too massive for their galaxy – and still growing www.mpe.mpg.de/8232113/news... Article by Buchner et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Black holes outgrow their galaxies

New findings reveal black holes growing faster than their galaxies, with mass ratios up to 1:20 compared to typical 1:200.

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Featured image: Black holes outgrowing their host galaxies (Buchner, J., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A11) www.aanda.org/component/is...

Highlight: A large population of overmassive black hole quasars at z=0.3-0.8 revealed by eROSITA by Johannes Buchner, Isabelle Gauger, Qiaoya Wu, Hattie Starck, Catarina Aydar, et al. 2026, A&A, 713, A11 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

Highlight: Hidden Vela supercluster revealed by the first hybrid redshift and peculiar velocity reconstruction by A.M. Hollinger, H.M. Courtois, R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, and al. 2026, A&A, 713, A4 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

Featured image: X-ray temperature of diffuse gas in Wd 1 (Albacete-Colombo, J. F., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A79) www.aanda.org/component/is...

Featured image: Deep colour (g,r,i) image of the galaxy Messier 74 (Ruiz Cejudo, I., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A10) www.aanda.org/component/is...

Featured image: Map revealing the hidden giant supercluster Vela (Hollinger, A. M., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A4) www.aanda.org/component/is...

MPE press release: Cosmic Trio: Three Black Holes Discovered in a Young Galaxy for the First Time www.mpe.mpg.de/8218247/news... Article by Übler et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Cosmic Trio

Researchers discover three active supermassive black holes in a distant galaxy, revealing insights into early Universe black hole growth.

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ESA press release: Webb reveals dust and water surviving in the extreme environment around the Milky Way’s central black hole esawebb.org/news/weic2617/ Article by Peißker et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Webb reveals dust and water surviving in the extreme environment around the Milky Way’s central black hole

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at th...

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Vienna Uni. press release: The ghost in Orion’s shell. New radio observations reveal hidden structures around the Orion Nebula www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Article by Soler et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

The ghost in Orion's shell

New radio observations reveal hidden structures around the Orion Nebula

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Featured image: SN1987A’s outer rings emission lines from VLT/MUSE (Rosu, S., et al., 2026, A&A, 712, A188) www.aanda.org/component/is...

Highlight: The outer rings of SN,1987A from year 1994 to 2024. Morphology, light curves, and optical to mid-infrared spectra by S. Rosu, E. Gerville-Reache, S. Thomas, et al. 2026, A&A, 712, A188 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...

MPE/MPG press release: eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date www.mpe.mpg.de/8215311/news... Article by Ramos-Ceja et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date

The second eROSITA data release reveals 1.9 million pointlike and 64,000 extended X-ray sources, enhancing cosmic population studies.

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ESO press release: Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion www.eso.org/public/news/... Article by Montargès et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion - “The conclusion of a century-long quest”

At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a...

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CNRS/Strasbourg Observatory: Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe astro.unistra.fr/en/2026/07/2... Article by Jego et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

On scales of hundreds of millions of light-years, galaxies are distributed along a vast network of matter filaments known as the cosmic web. While it was already known that galaxies located near cosmi...

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Featured image: Multiwavelength view of the Hydra I cluster (Srivastava, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A226) www.aanda.org/component/is...

NASA press release: NASA's Chandra Sees Black Hole Stirring "Pot" Containing Galactic Potato chandra.si.edu/press/26_rel... Article by Wang et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...