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 ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Through the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Telescope, it has been possible to confirm the expansion of the ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

Modern cosmology suggests that the universe has no single spatial centre or edge. The Big Bang did not occur at one ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda ...

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

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...

Is time something that flows — or just an illusion? Exploring space-time as either a fixed “block universe” or a dynamic fabric reveals deeper mysteries about existence, change, and the very nature of ...