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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

What can dormant black holes teach astronomers about tidal disruption events (TDEs), which is the bright flash observed when a black hole consumes a star t | Space ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

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

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...