Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's ...

Harvard University astronomers have proposed a new theory suggesting that the mysterious 'little red dots' first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) two years ago represent new galaxies ...

Astronomers once thought the universe's first stars (made of hydrogen and helium) were nearly all giants, hundreds to ...

Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

Astronomers have long known that many of the largest stars in our Milky Way do not live alone but instead exist in pairs. Now ...

Distant quasar J043947.08+163415.7 was discovered using gravitational lensing. It is the brightest object yet discovered in our Universe. An artist impression of the quasar has been created. Credit: ...

The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space ...

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An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object ...