"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...