Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed an unprecedented view into the heart of the Circinus galaxy, located ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

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

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.

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 galaxy named GS-10578 is known by the aphorism “Live fast, die young.” A majority of its stars formed between 12.5 and 11.5 ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...