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

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 ...

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

Astronomers first thought these red dots were ancient galaxies. They appeared unusually mature for their early universe age.

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, ...

Astronomer de Graaff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and her team reveal what could be behind the small red dots in the images from the James Webb Space Telescope: black hole stars, which ...

A team of astronomers have detected an AGN in a distant dwarf galaxy about 230 million light years away. In a twist, this ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation theories. Primordial black ...

From the early days of JWST's scientific observations of the distant universe, scientists started noticing a population of curious objects. They are very red, extremely compact, and there are a lot of ...

This incident is truly perplexing—a black hole with 23 times the mass of the Sun 'devoured' a small celestial body. Why is this black hole so 'greedy'? And why did that small celestial body willingly ...

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