A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped light generated by a monster black hole takes center stage in one of the latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images. The luminous loop, which is strikingly ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have separated the light of a quasar from the light of its surrounding stars, offering unprecedented insight into how the universe's oldest black holes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has an eye for bling. A new image released by the European Space Agency shows the powerful telescope’s latest — and decidedly glamorous — finding: a bright quasar that ...

Main image: An illustration of a supermassive-black-hole-powered quasar. Inset: A map of line emissions of hydrogen (in red and blue) and oxygen (in green), in the PJ308-21 system, shown after masking ...

Map of the line emission of hydrogen (in red and blue) and oxygen (in green) in the PJ308-21 system, shown after masking the light from the central quasar ("QSO"). The different colours of the ...

Black Holes The James Webb telescope may have discovered a brand new class of cosmic object: the black hole star Black Holes James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, ...

The powerful infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope captured a sparkling jeweled ring in the depths of space, all made by a mesmerizing cosmic phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This ...

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe and among the most energetic. They outshine entire galaxies of billions of stars. A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every quasar, but not ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

A team led by University of Arizona astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar ever found, and they believe it was fully formed 670 million years ago after the big bang. Credit: Illustration ...

A massive galaxy (blue dot) warps the light emitted by an active black hole (orange dots) in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. | Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped ...