Astrophysics

Latest research

1. Variability as a new discovery channel for intermediate-mass black holes in the time-domain era

   • Colin J. Burke
   • Priyamvada Natarajan

   in Nature Astronomy

   Article 16 January 2026

   

2. The Universe’s faintest giant grows by devouring its neighbours

   • Subhra Priyadarshini

   in Nature India

   Article 16 January 2026

   

3. A practical Bayesian method for gravitational-wave ringdown analysis with multiple modes

   • Yiming Dong
   • Ziming Wang
   • Lijing Shao

   in Nature Astronomy

   Article 15 January 2026

   

4. Testing the cosmic distance duality relation using model-independent approach

   • Shubham Barua
   • Sujit K. Dalui
   • Shantanu Desai

   in The European Physical Journal C

   Article Open access 14 January 2026

   

5. Quasinormal spectra of a wormhole family: overtone features and a parameter-controlled redshift

   • Abhisek Barman Maji
   • Sayan Kar

   in The European Physical Journal C

   Article Open access 14 January 2026

   

6. Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons

   • V. Rusakov
   • D. Watson
   • J. Witstok

   in Nature

   Article Open access 14 January 2026

   

7. Mysterious ‘little red dots’ could be black holes in disguise

   • Rodrigo Nemmen

   in Nature

   Article 14 January 2026

   

8. Search for imprints of isovector–scalar mesons and kaon condensation in binary neutron star inspiral gravitational waves

   • Bin Hong
   • ZhongZhou Ren

   in The European Physical Journal C

   Article Open access 14 January 2026

   

9. Gravitationally-induced matter creation cosmology with power-law decaying vacuum energy

   • Lokesh Chander
   • C.P. Singh

   in The European Physical Journal Plus

   Article 14 January 2026

   

10. Magnetic Reconnection

    • Rumi Nakamura
    • James L. Burch

    in Space Sciences Series of ISSI

    Book 2026

    

11. JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy

    • Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez
    • Joel Sanchez-Bermudez
    • Matthew J. Hankins

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 13 January 2026

    

12. Observational constraints on a nonlinear spinor field quintessence model in an FLRW universe

    • Mahendra Goray
    • Bijan Saha

    in The European Physical Journal C

    Article Open access 12 January 2026

    

13. Measurement of the gas consumption history of a massive quiescent galaxy

    • Jan Scholtz
    • Francesco D’Eugenio
    • Joris Witstok

    in Nature Astronomy

    Article 12 January 2026

    

14. Quasinormal modes and greybody factors of black holes corrected by nonlinear electrodynamics

    • Jie Liang
    • Dong Liu
    • Zheng-Wen Long

    in The European Physical Journal C

    Article Open access 12 January 2026

    

15. Can black holes preserve 𝒩 > 4 supersymmetry?

    • Matthew Heydeman
    • Xiaoyi Shi
    • Gustavo J. Turiaci

    in Journal of High Energy Physics

    Article Open access 07 January 2026

16. Neutron stars in minimal dilatonic gravity

    • M. Asadnezhad
    • M. Bigdeli

    in The European Physical Journal C

    Article Open access 07 January 2026

    

17. Gravitational wave strain and orbital dynamics of binary pulsars from LIGO/Virgo to LISA

    • Ali Taani

    in The European Physical Journal Plus

    Article 07 January 2026

    

18. Fundamentals of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

    • Shoji Kato
    • Jun Fukue

    in Astronomy and Astrophysics Library

    Textbook 2026

    

19. Epicyclic frequencies around charged regular black hole: constraints using different quasars data

    • G. Mustafa
    • Faisal Javed
    • Farruh Atamurotov

    in The European Physical Journal C

    Article Open access 05 January 2026

    

20. Evidence of mutually exclusive outflow forms from a black hole X-ray binary

    • Zuobin Zhang
    • Jiachen Jiang
    • Andrew K. Hughes

    in Nature Astronomy

    Article 05 January 2026

    

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