Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

These Jedi may not be as familiar to casual fans as many others, but they deserve more attention in the Star Wars universe.

Thanos was using them solely to enact his plan to wipe out half of existence, so he was never particularly interested in how powerful each one made him individually. He never revealed in those power ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

Later, I did some research and realized these weren't smudges at all; they were newly formed stars! Honestly, my eyes widened ...

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure ...