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"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.
The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.
Researchers Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Gabriel Brammer of the University of Copenhagen have uncovered a ...
Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.
Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...
Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...
As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...
This cosmic twist was uncovered by a team led by Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum, who dubbed the galaxy “Infinity.” Formed ...
The newborn universe appeared to possess more giant galaxies than scientists could explain-and black holes may be the reason ...
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...
An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.