Scientists say a jet from a previously studied supermassive black hole has grown brighter, becoming one of the most energetic ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such 'monster stars' might have been the source of ancient supermassive black ...

For twenty years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a big puzzle about how supermassive black holes, some of the brightest objects out there, showed up less than a billion years after ...

For two decades, astronomers have wondered how supermassive black holes could exist less than a billion years after the Big Bang. They knew that the processes inside normal stars simply couldn't ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...