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

Hubble’s successor, JWST, had many goals when it was launched. It was going to see farther back into the universe than any ...

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude ...

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

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

The mystery in question revolves around the objects known as little red dots. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

During a press conference at the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Devesh Nandal from the Center ...

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 ...

A new study from Johns Hopkins University suggests that supermassive black holes—those cosmic behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies—might already be generating the kinds of high-energy particle ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. Using high precision computing and a new ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several magnetic flips in the last decade. Reading time 3 minutes In 2019, ...