NEWS : Astronomers have discovered an entirely new type of cosmic object called a "black hole star" It's the size of our ...

Freshly spotted, but probably already dead.

Since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began peering into the earliest epochs of cosmic history, one class of object has ...

Ever before it was launched at the end of 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope promised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe. It rapidly did that, including by discovering something we ...

The dual black hole system, dubbed LID-1166, is the first close-separation pair of its kind confirmed this early in the universe. The discovery could help to explain how the earliest black holes grew ...

After analyzing infrared images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers has discovered multiple massive black holes from approximately 12.5–12.8 billion ...

The newly discovered object looks like a star the size of our solar system, but produces 100 billion times more energy than any star.

A new James Webb Space Telescope discovery has led some astronomers to believe they've found an object near cosmic dawn that could explain an early phase of virtually all massive black holes. Credit: ...

An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe. When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have ...

It is generally agreed that most, if not all, galaxies out there have some supermassive black hole at their center, acting as a sort of anchor around which billions of stars and planets spin. But have ...

Astronomers used the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to find a stellar black hole in a globular cluster roughly 18,000 light-years away from Earth. Credit: ESA / NASA / M. Häberle / J.

In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data ...