Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star ...

A new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster – among the largest structures in the universe – started to ...

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 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity from the galaxy Messier 87 ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the matter spiralling into them forms a hot, dense accretion disc that radiates ...

"Looking out into the universe is uniquely allowing us to look back in time and piece together this beautiful cosmic story ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...