Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

Inayoshi argues that Little Red Dots are the birth cries of black holes — brief, turbulent episodes that mark the first outbursts of growth from newly formed "seed" black holes. If correct, this ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three years ago, gives us the ability to take photographs of deep space with ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

Black holes — regions of space-time with extreme curvature — first arose as a concept from solutions to Einstein's field equations suggested by German physicist and astronomer Karl ...