"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 James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of black holes consuming stars in dusty galaxies. These black holes were ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

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

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around ...

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 observed the same region of sky captured in the famous Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, ...

In fact, only three factors can be used to define a black hole: its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge. In ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which operates Webb, recently released an image of a planetary nebula known as NGC 6072. The nebula is located roughly 3,300 light-years from Earth, in ...

Astronomers may have found a rare intermediate-mass black hole outside galaxy NGC 6099—offering clues about how bigger black ...