Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, but some are much larger than others. Recently, NASA has captured stunning ...

Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey has unveiled a groundbreaking catalog detailing distances to millions of ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

An almost impossible alignment of galaxies that forms a giant magnifying lens could give astronomers an unprecedented deep view of the universe. The Carousel Lens—named for its concentric circular ...

But axions, as they are called, could constitute most of the matter in our universe, forming the unseen skeletons of galaxies ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...