Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a galaxy that is offering new data about the early stages of the ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

An early black hole feeds too fast—yet still blasts X-rays and radio jets.

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang—a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than astronomers believed such well-structured galaxies could form. With ...

MoM-z14 existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, according a team of astronomers led by Dr. Rohan Naidu from the ...