Jesper Sollerman

Normally, black holes rip stars apart in the centers of galaxies. A new discovery shows that some black holes lurk in the outskirts. Astronomers spotted a flare tens of thousands of light-years from the center of a large galaxy. A computer algorithm trained on similar events helped identify it. Soon

62 days after supernova SN 2024rbc exploded, its debris revealed an infrared signal from carbon monoxide—a first. It helps explain how cosmic dust is born in the Universe.