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Supermassive black holes represent one of the biggest head-scratchers in the Universe. These behemoths weighing millions to tens of billions of Suns lurk at the center of just about every galaxy – the gravitational heart around which stars and planets and clouds of shimmering gas whirl in an intricate dance. What we don’t know is how these giants are born. …

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around a newborn star. Using advanced observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) in Chile, researchers spotted the earliest known traces of planet-building materials around the infant star HOPS-315. A Star Like Our Sun? The …