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.

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin, ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

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 ...

Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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