Astronomers have taken a rare look into the distant past of the universe and uncovered evidence that galaxies and their ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit. Studying it further could help answer one of the biggest questions in ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...