Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

In a galaxy far, far, far away, astronomers have found the oldest black hole in the universe. It sits at the center of the CAPERS-LRD-z9 galaxy, and it’s thought to have formed over 13.3 billion years ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt worked as a Harvard “computer” earning just 30 cents an hour, yet her groundbreaking discovery of the ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the ...

Astronomers discover a rare “jellyfish” galaxy with the Webb telescope, whose bright trail reveals how stars are born when ...

Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't ...

Astronomers may have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of forming inside a uniquely shaped galaxy. Astronomers ...

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our ...

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...