Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten the first-ever look at the light of ancient stars shining around some of the biggest, brightest and oldest black holes in the ...
An artist’s impression of a quasar wind (in light blue) being launched off of the accretion disk (red-orange) around a ...
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” This famous quote by Isaac Newton points to an axiom that lies at the heart of The Sciences — knowledge ...
June 6, 2024 — In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose. The gravitational ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
A computer-generated image of a black hole in front a rich star field. The black hole distorts starlight into a brilliant ring around itself. A black hole is a region in space where gravity has ...
From the linked NASA announcement: This discovery was not just a new distance record for our team; the most important aspect of JADES-GS-z14-0 was that at this distance, we know that this galaxy must ...
Storchi Bergmann became internationally known in her field when she published a study in 1993 in which she provided indirect evidence that there was an active supermassive black hole in the center of ...
NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant and oldest known galaxy. The “bright, massive and large” star system reportedly formed just 290 million years after the big bang. Garcia's ...
Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests that not enough of the miniature black holes formed for this to be the ...