The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

How could we finally observe dark matter in an original way, this invisible substance that makes up the greatest part of the ...

The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or LFBOTs, comes in the form of short, bright flashes of light ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.