The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That's a problem for our ideas about the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...