When a black hole actively consumes matter, it’s referred to as being in the quasar phase, which could last a few million ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have imaged a surprisingly merry-looking collision between galaxies. The merger of the large spiral galaxy and the smaller elliptical galaxy, ...

The near-infrared camera of JWST highlights the connection between the two galaxies, sensitive to the emission of the stars and gas stretching between the two objects. But JWST also observed the ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole "killing" its galaxy by starving it ...

Now in its 16th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition aims to highlight amateur space photographers from around the globe. This year's winning image was taken by Ryan Imperio ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. By ...

Sep. 17, 2024 — With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new ...