The James Webb Space Telescope observed the same region of sky captured in the famous Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, revealing thousands of distant ancient galaxies. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / G.

When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to the distant past, it spotted hundreds of tiny, ...

GRB 221009A, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded, offered a rare look into stellar death, black hole formation, and particle physics, with insights from JWST and Fermi reshaping models of ...

It seems obvious, then, that, cosmically speaking, everything spins—but this basic fact becomes downright bizarre in the head ...

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

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

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

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 ...

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have ...

What are some of the most oddly-shaped galaxies? Learn more about some of the Universe's unusual formations.

Black holes embody the ultimate abyss. They are the most powerful sources of gravity in the universe, capable of dramatically ...

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the ...