Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across. This profound density gives black holes ...

At this point, astronomers are used to the James Webb Space Telescope pushing the boundaries of astronomy — so it is little ...

The discovery of the supermassive black, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, gives astronomers new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful thanks to NASA's $10 billion-telescope. After nearly three years in space ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...