Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope report that a massive galaxy from the early universe shows no sign of ...
Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black ...
For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a ...
Radio image of Porphyrion. (Martijn Oei, Caltech/LOFAR Collaboration) There are plenty of mind-bendingly large structures in ...
Astronomers have uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest ever detected, shining from a time when ...
Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...
Astronomers searching the deep sky with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope have turned up the oldest ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument shows the Centaurus A galaxy's weird glowing shapes at its core.
Scale in the universe is hard to understand from a purely human perspective. Many times, the math just doesn't sit well with ...
New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...
The Bullet Cluster is considered important evidence for the existence of dark matter. Now a research team believes it can ...
Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.