The team analysed 19 galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster, located 11 billion light-years away. Eight of these galaxies host active supermassive black holes and exhibit little to no star formation.

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U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mysterious "little red dots" scattered across the early universe. Could these ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...