Many LRDs exhibit a strong Balmer break, at an epoch starting just 600 million years after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

Researchers have detected a gamma-ray burst outside of the Milky Way that's unlike any previously observed. There's no satisfying explanation for the mysterious cosmic explosion, but it may be linked ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf, a highly compact stellar ember, that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of Sagittarius B2, a massive star-forming region near the Milky Way galaxy’s center.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of Sagittarius B2, a highly active star-forming region near ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

Astrophysicists have discovered a supermassive black hole in quasar galaxy RACS J0320-35, consuming matter at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit, setting a new record.

Astronomers studying JWST’s puzzling “little red dots” propose they may be vast gas spheres powered by feeding black holes.

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...