Space, science and CERN

Space

• A self-shadowing black hole accretion disk at sub-Eddington luminosities

  A multiwavelength study reveals a vertically extended inner disk in a black hole X-ray binary at unexpectedly low luminosities, reshaping its emission and shielding the outer disk, with implications for its physical and observational properties.

  Nature Astronomy · 2026-10-22

• Reconstruction of pretelescopic and early telescopic solar activity cycles from auroral records

  Nature · 2026-09-12

• Listening to active planetary surfaces

  Nature · 2026-09-08

• ‘Mother of Hubble’: how Nancy Grace Roman ushered in a new era of astronomy

  Nature · 2026-09-08

• A high-precision shipborne strapdown gravimetry method adaptively robust to global navigation satellite system signal anomalies

  Nature · 2026-09-05

• Kinematic relationship between solar extreme ultraviolet waves and type II metric radio bursts

  Nature · 2026-09-04