Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

Mysterious objects or "little red dots" seen in the early universe by the JWST. | Credit: JWST/NIRSpec. Forget "little green men" — it is "little red dots" in the infant universe that caught the eye ...

What makes red geysers stand out is that they show faint, galaxy-scale outflows of ionized gas, stretching tens of thousands ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in ...

For astronomers, finding a new black hole orbiting an aged red dwarf star is an exciting find in itself, but when that black hole seems to be a "missing link" stellar-mass black hole, you can crank ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

An eerie, blood-red orb of light was recently photographed in the night sky above Texas after SpaceX launched a satellite-laden rocket into space. The increasingly common phenomenon, known as a ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...

Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the dawn of the universe may be giant spheres of hot gas that are so dense they look like the ...