"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

A team of astronomers thinks that they might have just spotted the most distant and oldest supermassive black hole ever seen. This remarkable finding, detailed in research uploaded to the preprint ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Scientists have discovered that the redshift galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 has an unusually large accretion black hole for its ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...