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Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time. They also expose where our understanding of reality begins to break.  In this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned what looked like simple red smudges and faint galactic cores into a radical new ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest little red dots are early supermassive black holes, providing insights into cosmic evolution within the first billion years of the universe.

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.