These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hunted supermassive black holes devouring stars in dusty galaxies — but ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected two galaxies and their supermassive central black holes caught in a merging dance when the universe was only 740 million years old. This makes ...

But now, a reanalysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) indicates that these black holes could have been present during the first 50 million years of our 13.8 billion-year-old ...

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts. The young cosmos is ...