Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Astronomers theorise that they are early galaxies that existed earlier than 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

During the early scientific observations of the distant universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists began to notice a peculiar class of objects. They are very red, extremely compact, ...

First, let me explain black holes. The black holes that scientists currently know mainly fall into two categories. One is ...

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

The mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's "little red dots" could be solved if they are not ancient galaxies but are ...

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

Artist's rendering of the James Webb Telescope in space Editor at Large NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods. Launched on Christmas Day, 2021, it has since sent back a ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

The cut-out reveals the central black hole with its surrounding accretion disk. What makes this a black hole star is the surrounding envelope of turbulent gas. This configuration can explain what ...