Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time; they expose where our understanding of reality starts to break.  In this video, ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest little red dots are early supermassive black holes, providing insights into cosmic evolution within the first billion years of the universe.

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.