A new study reveals a dust-reddened quasar from a time when the universe was less than a billion years old. Located at a ...

By analyzing data on around 100,000 quasars, or extremely luminous galactic nuclei, researchers at Eötvös Loránd University ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a concentration of heavy metals near the Milky Way's central ...

An analysis of 104,688 quasars links dust reddening with estimated velocity offsets, offering statistical evidence for ...

Supermassive black holes usually sit at the centers of large galaxies, where their enormous gravity influences the movement ...

In our solar system's corner of the galaxy, stars rarely collide. It makes sense: Space is vast, and stars have room to roam.

Supermassive black holes are usually found at the centers of large galaxies. But for quite some time now, scientists have ...

Astronomers discovered two giant black holes in galaxy Mrk 501 racing toward collision, revealing a second jet of particles ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era ...

Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away ...

NMSU astronomer Wladimir Lyra and collaborators found that disks around supermassive black holes may create massive planets, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is examining light arriving from the distant universe. Because it takes a long time for light ...