Astronomers Measure The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole, Our Solar System's Lost Protoplanet, And More Science Stories

This week's science news.

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It's been an eventful week in science news. Astronauts on the ISS were briefly ordered to shelter in place after the discovery of an air leak in the transfer tunnel, NASA officially declared its MAVEN space probe dead and scientists announced the creation of a "universal vaccine" designed by AI. Plus, researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly measure the mass of a distant black hole and a meteorite revealed clues about a long-gone protoplanet in our solar system. Catch up here on these stories and more from this week.

JWST measures the mass of a faraway dormant black hole

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have measured the mass of a dormant black hole 10 billion light-years away. Dormant black holes are trickier to observe than those that are actively feeding, as they aren't surrounded by light...

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