"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.

In a groundbreaking studypublished in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers have uncovered a ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...