In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...
Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
Astronomers have identified a rare cosmic phenomenon: a supermassive black hole, known as J0410−0139, located 12.9 billion ...
Up to 50% of feeding black holes may be hidden behind gas and dust These black holes influence star formation in galaxies Infrared data helped uncover obscured supermassive black holes ...
In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...
Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...