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Black Holes Recycle Fuel, Beta Pic's Third Planet & Falcon 9 Abort
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JWST confirms NGC 4696's supermassive black hole feeds itself through its own exhaust — rewriting how we understand cosmic growth. Plus a new exoplanet found via spectroscopy at Beta Pictoris and a SpaceX Falcon 9 post-ignition abort at Vandenberg.
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JWST has just confirmed something that changes how we understand black hole growth. Not in theory.
Now to a discovery that matters as much for its method as for what it found. A third planet has been confirmed around Beta Pictoris, the nearby young star system already known to host two directly imaged worlds.
SpaceX had a rare post-ignition abort on July twentieth at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The mission was Starlink seventeen-dash-thirty-nine.
On the commercial infrastructure side, NASA has selected SpaceX's Starlink laser relay system to transmit live video from the Orion spacecraft during Artemis III. That's the crewed lunar surface mission.
A few things worth tracking before the next briefing. SpaceX's Tuesday retry for Starlink seventeen-dash-thirty-nine will tell us whether the pressurization issue was isolated or something with wider implications for the fleet.
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