CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...
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Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...
Not so far away and long ago: A galaxy near the Big Dipper is no longer the "Most Distant Object Known," according to astronomers who have made new measurements of its distance. The team, led by ...
A gamma-ray burst from about 13 billion light years away has become the most distant object in the known universe. Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers his insight ...
You’d assume that the brightest object in the known universe would be a pretty easy thing to discover, but astronomers have only just spotted it. This overlooked show-off is a supermassive black hole ...