Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...
Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...
Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX, which can be seen tucked just below the ...
For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...
The universe is filled with countless galaxies, but some are much larger than others. Recently, NASA has captured stunning ...
Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.
Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...
Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...
Launching by 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 infrared colors to investigate the ...
It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...
This discovery presents challenges to the understanding of the early universe by providing evidence that could explain evolutionary history of black hole formations.
At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...