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Scientists find oldest-known black hole in universe

Scientists discovered a distant black hole 300 million times the size of the sun. It's a portal back in time.

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago

The Daily Galaxy on MSN · 17h

Scientists Just Spotted a Galaxy Giving Birth to a Monster Black Hole

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaiʻi and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a rare cosmic structure they call the Infinity Galaxy — a figure-eight-shaped remnant of two colliding galaxies that may be giving birth to a supermassive black hole.

Yahoo · 1d

'Ultramassive' black hole the size of 36 billion suns found in distant galaxy

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

Live Science on MSN1d

Scientists may finally know why the first stars in the universe left no trace

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

Space.com on MSN1d

Scientists capture bridge of stray stars being sucked from one galaxy to another

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

Earth.com2d

Webb Telescope discovers a strange galaxy that looks like a jellyfish floating in space

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

New Scientist1mon

The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains ...

FOX 32 Chicago on MSN1d

Adler Planetarium has one of the best views of the universe

It’s not always easy to see the night sky in the city, but the Adler Planetarium’s Doane Observatory offers Chicagoans a rare ...

CBS News1y

Oldest 'dead' galaxy spied by Webb may cause astronomers to revise ...

It launched last in 2021 from French Guiana. The galaxy existed when the universe was only about 700 million years into its current age of about 13.8 billion years.

New Scientist23d

Little red dot galaxies have now been found in our local universe

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

The University of Chicago Chronicle4y

UChicago undergrads discover bright lensed galaxy in the early universe

The night sky is a natural time machine, used by cosmologists to explore the origins and evolution of the universe. Reaching into the depths of the past, a class of undergraduate students at the ...

Forbes6y

Astronomers Discover Mysterious Monster Galaxy In The Early Universe

Instead, COSMOS-AzTEC-1 has a runaway star-formation rate over 1000 times that of our Milky Way galaxy, and Tadaki's team estimates it will run out of gas in just 100 million years.

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